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MY - University of Toronto Press Dictionary of Basilian Biography
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MY - University of Toronto Press Aggressive in Pursuit
Book SynopsisFew people have had a greater impact on the lives of Canadians than the late Supreme Court judge Justice Emmett Hall. At the forefront of several important judgements in the 1960s and 70s such as Truscott and Calder Hall is perhaps best known for his role in the adoption of universal health care at the federal level in 1968. Based on extensive interviews with Hall and people who knew him, Frederick Vaughan''s Aggressive in Pursuit tells Hall''s remarkable story.Born in Quebec in 1898 and raised in Saskatchewan, Hall had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer. In 1957, former law school classmate Prime Minister John Diefenbaker appointed Hall to the Saskatchewan Court of Queen''s Bench, and four years later to the office of Chief Justice of Saskatchewan. In 1963, Diefenbaker elevated Hall to the Supreme Court of Canada, where he took up the task of universal health care and showed himself to be an aggressive defender of native causes.Aggressive in Pursu
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MY - University of Toronto Press Odysseys Home
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MY - University of Toronto Press A.M. Klein Complete Poems
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Case of Valentine Shortis
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University of Toronto Press The Legacies of Fear
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MY - University of Toronto Press Making Sense of Sentencing
Book SynopsisOn 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book that, in addition to providing an overview of the law, effectively presents a sociological analysis of the legal reforms and their ramifications in this controversial area.The commissioned essays in this collection cover such crucial issues as options and alternatives in sentencing, patterns revealed by recent statistics, sentencing of minority groups, Bill C-41 and its effects, conditional sentencing, and the structure and relationship between parole and sentencing are clearly presented. An introduction, editorial comments beginning each chapter, and a concluding chapter draw the essays together resulting in a timely, comprehensive and extremely readable work on this critical topic.Broad in scope and perspective, this major new socio-legal study of the law of sentencing will be illuminating to students, member
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MY - University of Toronto Press Born at the Right Time
Book SynopsisFrom Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of the baby-boomers became predominant themes for all of society. The first Canadian history of a legendary generation.Trade Review'Owram shows in fascinating detail the massive impact this group had on everything from the baby food that was created to feed them, to the suburbs that were built to house them and the school system that sprung up to educate them.' The Toronto Star The Toronto Star '[Owram provides] some valuable insights into how this most privileged generation of the century got here and why we rebelled.' The Globe and Mail 'A thorough and absorbing work which demonstrates how the baby-boomers, that demographic watermelon passing through the post-war snake, defined our times.' The Vancouver Sun 'It is an extremely well-researched book, full of data tables and bar graphs. If you need to know how many copies of Elvis Presley's Hound Dog were sold in 1956, or the amount of sugar in Sugar Smacks, this is your book. Apart from his thoroughness, Owram possesses two indispensable qualities: a sense of proportion and a sense of humor.' -- Bruce Taylor The Montreal Gazette 'This first-rate scholarly product has the best elements of monograph, synthesis, and a good read. Historians of postwar North America should consider this book both for its innovative thesis linking the 1950s and the 1960s, and because it is a fine example of a well-constructed history.' -- J. Trent Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University Journal of Social History 'Doug Owram has done something amazing: he has written a book about the boomers entirely free of the cliches that ruin almost everything else written on the subject. ... Born at the Right Time is packed with ideas; every generalization is backed by evidence.' Saturday Night
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University of Toronto Press Dark Threats and White Knights The Somalia
Book SynopsisIn Dark Threats and White Knights, Sherene H. Razack explores the racism implicit in the Somalia Affair and what it has to do with modern peacekeeping.Trade Review"'In Dark Threats and White Knights, Sherene H. Razack raises issues that are central to world politics today - especially in light of Anglo-American occupation of postwar Iraq - covering a range of scholarly, journalistic, and governmental sources. The book is clearly and eloquently written. I found it a compelling read.' L.H.M. Ling, Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University"
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Romance Epics of Boiardo Ariosto and Tasso
Book SynopsisIn The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period''s three major chivalric poets. Cavallo challenges previous critical assumptions about the trajectory of the romance genre, especially regarding questions of creative imitation, allegory, ideology, and political engagement.In tracing the development of the romance epic against the historical context of the Ferrarese court and the Italian peninsula, Cavallo moves from a politically engaged Boiardo, whose poem promotes the tenets of humanism, to an individualistic Tasso, who opposed the repressive aspects of the counter-reformation culture he is often thought to represent. Ariosto is read from the vantage of his predecessor Boiardo, and Cavallo describes his cynicism and later mellowing attitude toward the real-world relevance of his and Boiardo''s fiction. The Romance Epics of BoiardTrade Review"'In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo demonstrates an impressive mastery of the texts of three massively complex poets, a keen understanding of the social and intellectual constructs with which they worked, and an easy familiarity with the extensive critical literature about them. She uses these formidable assets to advance a compelling and original theory about their relationship to each other. That has been a vexing and controversial problem, and Cavallo illuminates it with freshness, modesty, and great clarity of focus.' Werner Gundersheimer, Director Emeritus, Folger Shakespeare Library"
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MY - University of Toronto Press After Words
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University of Toronto Press Experiences in Translation
Book SynopsisIn this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.Trade Review"'Umberto Eco's Experiences in Translation is witty and engrossing, and it will inform and entertain readers who have ever wondered about the work that goes into transforming a text from a language they cannot read into one they can.' Jules Verdone, The Boston Globe 'This book is remarkably concise, yet rich, in its discussion of the enigma posed by translation. Eco has provided the reader with an informative and succinct discussion of translation. This work will help translators, literary specialists and scholars of comparative literature to understand the process of translation better.' Frank Nuessel, Journal of Literary Semantics"
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MY - University of Toronto Press Collected Works of Erasmus Expositions of the Psalms Volume 65
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University of Nebraska Press Yoruba Proverbs
Book SynopsisA collection of over five thousand Yoruban proverbs arranged according to theme. It includes an introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural beliefs, the proverbs are arranged by theme into five sections: the good person; the fortunate person; relationships; human nature; rights and responsibilities; and truisms.Trade Review“Obviously aimed at the specialist, it nevertheless also offers the casual reader considerable rewards. It’s not an inexpensive volume, but it’s a bargain for what it, in many respects, a monumental achievement.”—Complete Review"When it comes to the correct usage of Yoruba proverbs, Mr. Owomoyela should know."—Chronicle of Higher Education“This gigantic collection contains 5,235 Yoruba proverbs, their English translations, excellent brief annotations on usage and contexts, and a 38-page introduction! The tome also comes with a companion website . . . of even more proverbs. Readers will find in the book, preceded by two earlier proverb collections and one trickster tales compilation, a truly majestic culmination of Oyekan Owomoyela’s four-decade long labor at constructing a formidable textual archive of Yoruba oral literatures. . . . The size of this collection . . . attests to Owomoyela’s preeminence in proverb studies. The elephant of contemporary proverb scholarship has rustled the bush again, and only an incompetent liar or a malicious euphemist would report after perusing this book that he has merely ‘caught a fleeting glimpse of something’ in the forest of African proverb studies.”—Adeleke Adeeko, Research in African Literatures
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University of Nebraska Press The City Game
Book SynopsisPete Axthelm follows the 196970 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game, bringing alive the players' efforts, accomplishments, and failures.Trade Review"The master prose stylist portrays parallel basketball worlds in New York City: Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks won the 1969-1970 championship, and the playgrounds of Harlem, where stars such as Earl (the Goat) Manigault burned brightly but too briefly."—Sports Illustrated"The best description of basketball played in New York City streets during the sixties and seventies."—Bill Bradley, The New Yorker"Superb . . . [Axthelm] combines Knick history, player backgrounds, seasonal anecdotes and court triumphs with another phenomenon—city basketball in the crowded ghettoes of the nation. The areas he focuses on primarily are the asphalt playgrounds of Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant. There basketball has its special code of behavior, its pecking order and its own culture heroes. . . . A few city playground aces have made it to college . . . , and a few have found an escape route to the Harlem Globetrotters or the Eastern League. But many others have become strung out on poverty or drugs or have been imprisoned. . . . The book offers absorbing insights into the most unique and gripping of all city sports."—Rex Lardner, New York Times
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University of Nebraska Press Lakota Dictionary
Book SynopsisA complete and up-to-date dictionary of Lakota, this new edition of Eugene Buechel's classic dictionary contains some 30,000 entries.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Guide to Pronunciation; Guide to the use of the Dictionary; Grammar Section; Classes and Paradigms of Verbs; Word Sources; Abbreviations; Lakota to English; English to Lakota; Appendix A: Bible History references; Appendix B: Teton Lakota Society; Appendix C: Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Settler Aesthetics Visualizing the Spectacle of
Book SynopsisIn Settler Aesthetics, Mishuana Goeman examines Terrence Malick’s film The New World (2005) and the Pocahontas narrative, analyzing the settler structures and regimes of power that sustain colonialism and empire.Trade Review“Settler Aesthetics is an energetic book that engages critical Indigenous and settler-colonial concepts through a case study of The New World as set in historical, gendered, and political (tribal, federal, state) contexts. Mishuana Goeman assembles a persuasive critique of the film and a justified defense of Indigenous peoples, homelands, and cultures in Virginia.”—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of Cinematic Comanches: “The Lone Ranger” in the Media BorderlandsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Spectacle of Originary Moments 1. The Consumption of Mythic Romance and Innocence 2. Settler Aesthetics and the Making of Cinematic Geographies 3. Filmic Apologies and Indigenous Labor 4. The “New World” of Race, U.S. Law, and the Politics of Recognition Conclusion: Undoing the Spectacle Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press From Sleep Unbound
Book SynopsisFrom Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis.Trade Review“Much of this delicately composed, elegant novel is a gentle and simple story of a woman searching for herself in a world of callous, unimaginative male supremacy…. The writing, disclosing bitter, painful truths, is deceptively lyrical.” * The Times *“This is a lyrical novel that portrays the life of an Egyptian woman who is forced to accept a loveless and humiliating marriage.” * The Women’s Review of Books *“Woman may be compared to a very deep body of water; one can never predict the power of the undertow.”
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Stanford University Press The Epic of Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. This title presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.Table of ContentsA note to the reader; A note on the translation; Introduction; The epic of Gilgamesh; Appendixes.
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Stanford University Press Sun YatSen
Book SynopsisArguing that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted by both myth and demythification, the author provides a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement.Trade Review"By setting Sun Yat-sen in his proper historical context, this excellent biography not only resuscitates a major historical figure but constitutes one of the best histories we have of the late Qing and early Republican period."—Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley"This is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study . . . the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study." —American Historical Review"This study, by a leading historian of early-twentieth-century China, shows Sun's strengths as well as his weaknesses and helps explain his appeal. . . . Bergère provides enough context to make the biography accessible to general readers. Very highly recommended."—ChoiceTable of ContentsNote to reader Maps Introduction Part I. The Adventurer of the Southern Seas, 1866-1905: 1. The formative years, 1866-1894 2. The symbolic creation of a revolutionary leader, 1894-1897 3. The symbolic creation of a revolutionary movement, 1897-1900 4. The awakening of Chinese nationalism and the founding of the revolutionary alliance, 1805 Part II. The Founding Father? 1905-1920: 5. Sun and the revolutionary alliance 6. The conspirator 7. The (adoptive) father of the Chinese republic 8. Crossing the desert, 1913-1920 Part III. Sun's Last Years: National Revolution and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1920-1925: 9. Sun Yat-sen, soviet advisers, and the Canton revolutionary base, 1920-1924 10. Sun Yat-sen's three principles of the people 11. Sun Yat-sen's death and transformation Biographical sketches Notes Bibliography Index.
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Stanford University Press The Art Firm Aesthetic Management and
Book SynopsisThis title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the author illustrates the creative role - so central to value-making in contemporary economies - performed by aesthetic play in art firms.Trade Review"This is a wonderfully readable and delightful text, reminiscent of the energy of Zizek's cultural diagnoses." -- Choice"Guillet de Monthoux's close contact with the cultural world and its players... leads to an important contribution to our understanding of organization and the broader economy as captured in this book." -- Organization Studies"With The Art Firm: Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical Marketing Pierre Guillet de Monthoux provides the growing contemporary research field of organisational aesthetics with an invaluable sourcebook. At once a history of ideas and a history of organisational forms, it demonstrates the profound relevance of aesthetic philosophy for management and organisation studies, while at the same time it reveals how the post-Kantian philosophical tradition has taken shape in and through a series of encounters with particular organisations." -- Philosophy of Management"Expansive in its scope, The Art Firm is one of the most interesting management books I've read in some time. It is eloquently written and delivers important conclusions that will be of enduring importance. It should become the authoritative work on the relationship of art and aesthetics and the practice of business." -- Robert D. Austin * Harvard Business School, Author of Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work *"Although there are many books that purport to address the issues of business and the arts, I have yet to find such an engaging, challenging, and intellectually playful investigation of these issues as The Art Firm. Guillet de Monthoux romps through European thought and artistic enterprises with remarkable agility. This work, peppered with illustrative examples from history to the present day, asks important questions of our management oriented culture." -- Ruth Bereson, Program in Arts Administration, Teachers College * Columbia University *"By evoking—really depicting and conjuring—successful models from both art and business, Guillet de Monthoux convincingly demonstrates that managers must look beyond the traditional places for their ideas of how to run businesses. This book is particularly timely, offering a valuable and too long neglected perspective on 'creative' and 'inspired' ways to run businesses." -- Claire Hill * Chicago-Kent College of Law *
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Stanford University Press Something to Believe in
Book SynopsisLawyers in the US are frequently described as hired guns, willing to fight for any client or advance any interest. But there are others, those the authors call cause lawyers, who refuse to put aside their own convictions while they do their legal work. This book explores their work and the role of moral and political commitment in their practiceTrade Review"This superb new book . . . is a rich synthesis of several decades of research on cause lawyers and cause lawyering. . . . [It] is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in cause lawyers and the intersection between law and politics in the U.S."—The Law and Politics Book Review"Scheingold and Sarat have produced an excellent synthesis of the existing research on cause lawyers and lawyering. They have done us all a great service in writing this new book."—Law and Politics Book Review"Something To Believe In is a thoughtful and intellectual study of an approach to practicing law that elevates principle over pragmatic self-interest."—TRIAL"Two political scientists provide a brief and fascinating overview of 'cause lawyering,' or the use of legal skills to pursue ideological goals that transcend traditional client service."—California LawyerTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Cause Lawyering and Conventional Lawyering: Professional and Political Perspectives 2. Cause Lawyering, Civic Professionalism, and the Organized Legal Profession: A Brief History 3. Beating the Odds: Cause Lawyering and Legal Education 4. Careers in Cause Lawyering: Risks and Rewards 5. Cause Lawyers and Liberal Democracy: On the Possibilities of Democratic Advocacy 6. Conclusion: Cause Lawyering in Compoarative and Global Perspective Notes References Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Public interest law United States, Practice of law Political aspects United States, Practice of law United States Moral and ethical aspects
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Stanford University Press How Law Knows
Book SynopsisThe essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law's knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.Trade Review"This work raises new questions while also reexamining standard socio-legal issues in refreshing ways. The result is a rich and innovative look at the routines of truth seeking and fact finding."—Patricia Ewick, Clark University"How Law Knows is a useful and interesting collection addressing law's ways of knowing. The authors reveal that the establishment and organized use of legal facts is varied, historical, and amenable to a rich and diverse set of methods of inquiry."—Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii, ManoaTable of ContentsContents contributors000 Complexity, Contingency, and Change in Law's Knowledge Practices: An Introduction000 austin sarat, lawrence douglas, and martha merrill umphrey with connor clarke "Fact" and the Proof of Fact in Anglo American Law c. 1500-1850000 barbara j. shapiro Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Legal Knowledge Practices000 mariana valverde Legal Realism as Psychological and Cultural (Not Political) Realism000 Donald Braman and Dan M. Kahan How Law Knows in the American Trial Court000 robert p. burns Fact-Finding in Constitutional Cases000 david l. faigman index000
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Stanford University Press Fiction Agonistes
Book SynopsisFiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention.Trade Review"[Jusdanis] displays a wonderfully encyclopedic knowledge of criticism and literature from the ancient Greeks to contemporary postmodern and post-structuralist writers . . . Jusdanis has laid forth a provocative and interesting reflection on the current state of literature and its place in the world . . . [F]or anyone interested in the art of letters, [Fiction Agonistes is] a worthwhile read." -- Emily Manuel * Global Comment *"All in all, Jusdanis' insightful study offers a thought-provoking and important contribution to the debate on why literature matters. One of the strengths of the book lies in his lucid disentanglement of various conceptions subsumed under the slogan of art's death and his subsequent knowledgeable interrogation of these in light of the parabatic. His insightful observations invite further research as a wealth of other literary examples come to mind which could also be drawn on to substantiate his theses." -- Stella Butter"Fiction Agonistes is a formidable work: wide-ranging, erudite, and incisive in its entire range of argument. It represents a powerful effort to think through the issues that have surrounded the academic debate about the study of literature and to arrive at a full understanding of its centrality to the institutional processes of human life, and most especially to the reflective consciousness upon which any form of civilized life must depend." -- F. Abiola Irele * Harvard University *"In this well-written book Jusdanis defends art and literature in ways relevant to our own time. He takes into account the theoretical discussions of the last thirty years as well as our new social realities . . . Jusdanis does not hesitate either to take on large subjects or go against the current." -- Dimitris Tziovas"I read Fiction Agonistes with a sense of excitement and deep pleasure. Here is a critic engaged with issues of importance to any thinking person. Gregory Jusdanis asks hard questions: Does literature matter? If so, why? He reaches back to the Greeks (and others, such as Kant and Schiller) to find answers, and they are thrilling ones. Art, broadly defined, attends those boundaries between real and the imagined worlds, between matter and mind, body and soul. Our imagined worlds profoundly affect our real ones, affording opportunities to change realities in significant ways. Indeed, art—literature, in particular—enables social transformation itself. This is a wide-ranging and engaging study that strikes countless sparks, and I cannot imagine a more useful or important book for our times." -- Jay Parini * poet, novelist, critic, and author of Why Poetry Matters (2008) *"This is a wide-ranging and engaging study that strikes countless sparks, and I cannot imagine a more useful or important book for our times. Jusdanis asks hard questions: Does literature matter? If so, why? He reaches back to the Greeks (and others, such as Kant and Schiller) to find answers, and they are thrilling ones. Art attends those boundaries between real and imagined, matter and mind, body and soul. Our imagined worlds profoundly affect our real ones, affording opportunities to change realities in significant ways. Indeed, art—literature, in particular—enables social transformation itself." -- Jay Parini * poet, novelist, critic, and author of Why Poetry Matters (2008) *
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Stanford University Press Tell This in My Memory Stories of Enslavement
Book SynopsisTaking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners, Tell This in My Memory offers a new window into the study of slavery in modern Middle Eastern.Trade Review"Looking at slavery in modern Egypt from the perspective of both elite slave-owning families and slaves themselves, Tell This in My Memory offers a richly textured picture of how slavery was lived in one corner of the world. A marvelous book." * Martin Klein University of Toronto *"Troutt Powell's skills in story telling combine with her careful analyses to create persuasive portrayals of the nature of slavery in particular times and places . . . [S]he has done more than present a new perspective on the history of slavery. Troutt Powell adds a new dimension to understanding transcultural relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century." -- John O. Voll * Georgetown University *"In her evocative and well-crafted monograph, Eve M. Troutt Powell recreates the geographic, spiritual, and personal journeys of enslaved peoples . . . Her book makes a significant contribution to the study of slavery in the Middle East and the Sudan as it does to the global study of forced migrations and enslavement . . . Perhaps the strongest aspect of the book is its accessibility. It is highly readable and assignable to undergraduate students in a wide range of history classes. The author presents her arguments without much jargon and reads her memoirs with great sensitivity to historical context, literary genre, and audience." -- Dina Rizk Khoury * American Historical Review *"Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire is a study of slavery, liberation, and remembrance between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Eve M. Troutt Powell examines the mechanisms of enslavement and the experiences of emancipation through the lives and narratives of captives and their descendants, slave owners, and European missionaries . . . [B]y integrating the histories of the Atlantic and Europe with African, Egyptian, Circassian, and Ottoman history, Troutt Powell opens the door to a global approach to the history of slavery in the region. Her work encompasses sub-Saharan, Middle Eastern and North African, European, and Atlantic studies because the story of slavery cannot be properly told within the geographical limits imposed by academic fields of specialization." -- Soha El Achi * Arab Studies Journal *"This eagerly awaited book exceeds expectations. Troutt Powell asks probing questions about the lives of enslaved and freed women and men, creatively providing answers through perceptive readings of chronicles, memoirs, photographs, and other sources. She skillfully narrates the stories of slaves, restoring dignity and meaning to their lives while simultaneously adding texture to our understanding of the experiences of owners. With its elegant prose and poignant tales, Tell This in My Memory is a literary masterpiece." -- Beth Baron * CUNY Graduate Center, author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics *"A beautifully written account of the experience of Sudanese enslavement in the Central Islamic Lands in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing upon multiple languages and variegated sources, Troutt Powell weaves a moving and evocative tapestry, employing multiple perspectives of the enslaved as well as slaveholders. Her analysis of the conditions of enslavement as well as the challenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant. This is an extraordinary contribution to the intertwined studies of slavery, the Muslim world, and Africa's complex diaspora." -- Michael Gomez * New York University *"[S]cholars dealing with the legacy of slavery in the Islamic world will find this book a much-needed and welcome addition to this genre . . . Overall, the book masterfully unpacks unarticulated yet historical memories of previous generations of southern Sudanese and Darfuris who had been enslaved in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire across the Mediterranean." -- Ismael M. Montana * The Historian *"She looks at not only the lives of slaves but also the lives of others whom were influenced by slaves . . . By taking into consideration of all these accounts, it seems Powell has examined the 'slavery' issue not only as a historical fact but also as a living memory of the later generations of people whom owned slaves or were owned as slaves." -- Hatice Uğur * Osmanli Araştirmalari: The Journal of Ottoman Studies *"Powell performs an excellent service with this book by carefully examining the narratives she has chosen and showing us the choices her subjects made, the lives they were forced to lead, and the ways in which they came to accept their fate." -- Terence Walz * Middle East Journal *"Restoring the voices of long-silenced people, Troutt Powell's book leads the way in identifying and exploring some of the most important narratives of enslaved people-black and white, male and female-as they navigated the harsh conditions of slavery and claimed their freedom and dignity. Troutt Powell weaves a compelling set of stories into a unified interpretation and a grand narrative. This is an impressive work." -- Chouki El Hamel * Arizona State University *
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Stanford University Press The Battle for China Essays on the Military
Book SynopsisThis project offers the first English-language general history of military operations during the Sino-Japanese war based on Japanese, Chinese, and Western sources.Trade Review"[I]t is the most comprehensive introduction to the [military history of the Sino–Japanese War] currently available . . . The articles provide a competent, detailed, strongly factual and authoritative account of the two main armies' strategy, tactics, doctrines, weaponry, equipment, training, indoctrination, combat effectiveness, discipline, logistics, communications, conscription methods, intelligence, force structure and command, and of the international environment. "—Gregor Benton, The China Journal"[The Battle for China] fills a major gap in the historiography of the Sino-Japanese War and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the modern experience of East Asia . . . Historians should find this volume a much needed addition to their essential readings."—Ke-Wen Wang, Journal of World History"[The editors of The Battle for China] present to Western readers some of the best scholarship on the Sino-Japanese War by Chinese and Japanese historians, whose writings and publications previously were inaccessible to readers of English . . . [T]his rich and well-researched volume . . . should serve as an indispensable reference for the study of World War II."—Qiang Zhai, Frontiers of History in China"[R]emarkably well organized . . . In many ways, this book is a model of transnational scholarly collaboration . . . [T]his volume belongs on the shelf of all students and scholars of East Asian, international, and military history."—Edward A. McCord, China Review International"In-depth studies of critical moments of the war, combined with a comprehensive and well-written narrative of the larger events, make it a valuable addition to the literature for both specialists and the general reader."—David Gordon, Pacific Affairs"[The Battle for China] is by far the best academic treatment of the military history of the [Sino-Japanese] war in English . . . A chronology, fourteen maps, and a select bibliography in three languages make this an indispensable work for historians of modern China . . . In scope, it is the most comprehensive work on the military history of the war in English. It makes available a diverse body of scholarship, much of which has not been translated. It should stimulate additional research into one of the most significant events in the history of modern China."—Parks M. Coble, Chinese Historical Review"The Battle for China, an excellent collection of more than a dozen essays by nearly a score of American, British, Chinese, and Japanese scholars, is the first full English-language account of the Sino-Japanese War. Its unique description and analysis of military operations should please both the general reader and the specialist."—Colonel Stanley L. Falk, ARMY Magazine"A model of scholarship and tone, The Battle for China is a uniquely comprehensive overview of the military operations that shaped events in both China and Japan from 1937–1945. Each of the chapters has something to teach general readers and specialists about the semi-modern war that defined modern Asia."—Dennis Showalter, Colorado College"The Battle for China is a rare treasure that will likely renew interest in this underdeveloped field. For those interested in the Pacific war or greater insight into modern Chinese history, I highly recommend it."—Major Robert S. Burrell, United States Marine Corps, Naval History Magazine
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Stanford University Press The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with
Book SynopsisThis book is the final volume of a comprehensive, fully annotated, three-volume edition of letters written by Robinson and Una Jeffers.Trade Review"What Stanford University Press accomplished in The Collected Letters of Jack London, it is now accomplishing on behalf of another giant of American letters. In The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, Professor James Karman is setting new standards for skillful editing, and the project itself, now underway, will further establish Jeffers as a leading American poet of prophetic vision." -- Kevin Starr"The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers represents a truly important addition to American literary scholarship. Not only was Jeffers a great Modernist poet, he was the only major one writing from the western half of the United States. In these splendidly edited volumes of his and his wife's letters, we are finally able to glimpse into the life and mind of this prophetic figure." -- Dana Gioia"This meticulous edition of his letters, many previously unpublished, profoundly complicates our understanding of Jeffers the person, offers powerful insights into his poetry, provides an important context for understanding the literary culture of California in the 1920s and 1930s, and reminds us that Modernism was an aspect of modern poetry and not the whole of it." -- Tim Hunt * Illinois State University *
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Stanford University Press Justice for Some
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Noura Erakat's incisive exploration of the role of law in shaping the development of Israel/Palestine reveals the consistent genuflection of international legal institutions to Israel's reliance on well-established colonial practices. She also forcefully argues that the skillful use of international law as a tool of struggle can be generative of hope and possibility—for Palestine and the world. Justice for Some is precisely the book we need at this time."—Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement"A radical rethinking of the role of law and legal advocacy in the struggle for Palestinian rights. Noura Erakat tells how a refugee problem became a national liberation movement, and the tragic story of how initiative and momentum were squandered after Oslo. Brilliant, inspiring, coldly realistic—and hopeful."—Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus, Harvard Law School"Without any doubt, Justice for Some is the best book on the law and politics of the Palestine/Israel struggle—sophisticated, learned, humane, and creative. Noura Erakat makes a profound contribution to our general understanding of the paradoxical role of law in the contemporary world."—Richard Falk, Former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, author of Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace"Anyone wondering how and why international law has failed so miserably to curb Israeli violations in Palestine and the deleterious effect this has had on the law itself should read this book. Noura Erakat communicates...with the skill of a lawyer and the passion of an activist. Justice for Some is both enriching and inspiring."—Raja Shehadeh, founder of Al-Haq, author of Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine"Through a brilliant and bracing analysis of the Palestine question and settler colonialism, Noura Erakat offers a compelling story of how the antinomies of structure and indeterminacy shaped international law and its possibilities. Justice for Some is a vital lens into movement lawyering on the international plane. At once tragic and inspiring, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in decolonization and the politics of international law."—Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)"Noura Erakat brings a sophisticated understanding of the role of international law over the last century in the Question of Palestine. This brilliant book will be of great interest to anyone seeking to understand why the outcome, thus far, to the disposition of the Palestine problem has not been a just one."—Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017"Erakat's dissection of these legal and political histories is careful and captivating....This book asks that the Palestinian liberation struggle and Jewish-Israeli society each reckon with the impossibility of a two-state future, reimagining what their interests are—and what they could become. In rejecting the zero-sum formula's inevitability, Erakat sees, and demands, an alternative."—Amanda McCaffrey, Jewish Currents"[A] major scholarly contribution to the critical literature devoted to resolving the Israel/Palestine struggle in line with the dictates of justice....[I] urge a careful reading of Justice for Some by all those interested in the Palestinian struggle as well as those curious about the way law works for and against human wellbeing."—Richard Falk, Mondoweiss"[Erakat] meticulously reveals how Israel ignored international law, the laws of war, duties of an occupying power, and efforts brought through the United Nations to censure its actions....The book will interest those concerned with the law and ethics of war, international law, terrorism laws, and observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its treatment by international bodies. Highly recommended."—S. Zuhur, Choice"Erakat's detailed analysis paints a dismal reality, yet it is one that must be acknowledged and worked from. Her meticulous discussion on the inherent injustice in international law propels attention towards what so far remains overlooked and calls the reader to reflect upon action that veers away from what the international community keeps demanding of Palestinians."—Ramona Wadi, Middle East Monitor"That international law is not an effective starting point for achieving justice in Palestine is a vital insight for leftists developing a progressive foreign policy.Justice for Somemakes clear that winning Palestinian freedom will require confronting the geopolitical power structure that gives international law its meaning."—Gunar Olsen, Jacobin"Noura Erakat eloquently shows that, yes, the Israeli state project has been consolidated and expanded on a platform of might making right since 1948—but not only that. Israeli governments have also actively sought to craft legal justifications for the conquest and colonisation of territory, and to harness international law in their favour....[Erakat] has written a book that is a story of Palestine but is also a story of international law itself. Some of its most important insights are more universal than specific. They are major conceptual contributions with value well beyond the immediate case study."—John Reynolds, Dublin Review of Books"Erakat's critical perspective on international law and the focus on how Palestinians have used it to support their cause is a much-needed addition to the international law literature on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict....This is a book brimming with acute insights that deserves the widest possible readership."—Markus Gunneflo, Journal of Conflict and Security Law"Justice for Some challenges the not infrequent characterization of efforts to resolve the struggle over Palestine as a dichotomy between law/politics, principle/pragmatism or an imposed/negotiated solution. As [Erakat's] incisive analysis points out, these binaries, while not completely inaccurate, are incomplete in that they mask Israel's skilled use of the law to advance its interests while overlooking the political reasons for shortcomings in the Palestinian leadership's use of law as a form of resistance."—Terry Rempel, The Middle East Journal"In this elegantly written and carefully argued book, Erakat strikes a delicate balance that makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on both Palestine and critical international law....[Her] clear-eyed analysis is not only an excellent account of the law and politics of the Palestinian struggle but also a remarkable and often inspiring assessment of the relationship between law and liberation."—Asla Bâli, Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Colonial Erasures and the Struggle for Self-Determination 2. Permanent Occupation 3. Pragmatic Revolutionaries 4. The Oslo Peace Process 5. From Occupation to Warfare 6. Conclusion
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University of Oklahoma Press Prize for the Fire
Book SynopsisIn a deft blend of history and imagination, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew brings to life a young woman who defied the conventions of her time, ultimately braving torture and the fire of martyrdom for her convictions.Trade Review“Society’s net gradually and then violently tightens around a woman who desires no more—and no less—than freedom of movement, speech, conscience, and faith. In Rilla Askew’s riveting Prize for the Fire, the struggles of this sixteenth-century protagonist echo in contemporary battles over women’s voices and bodily autonomy. A deeply sensitive and ambitious act of historical imagination.”—Pamela Erens, author of The Virgins and Eleven Hours “Prize for the Fire is a triumph. Rilla Askew has captured the unquenchable spirit of a singular woman, Anne Askew, as she stands alone against the violent, tumultuous England of Henry VIII’s final years. Readers of literary and historical fiction will find that this deeply researched novel and its passionate, elegiac prose will stay with them long after they close the book on Anne’s story. Highly recommended.”—Mary Anna Evans, author of the Faye Longchamp Mystery series“With poise and restraint, Rilla Askew’s historical novel Prize for the Fire tells the brilliant, multifaceted story of an intelligent, virtuous, and indomitable woman.”—Foreword Reviews“The novel deftly shows the insecurity of the times. It succeeds in taking us inside the head of a religious fanatic, making her credible, sympathetic, and, in a way, inspiring. Highly recommended.”— ReadingWorld with Susan Coventry“The author writes powerfully of this world of diminished and marginalized women… Prize for the Fire has the tone and feel of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and it stands tall among the best of Tudor historical fiction.”—Historical Novel Society“Like the gospel translators who changed Anne’s life, Askew portrays a principled life and dramatic era in clear, vivid prose. The themes remain pertinent – the suppression of women’s voices and the struggle for freedom in thought and religion. Askew has found in one Lincolnshire woman a symbol of courage and independence we would do well to remember.”—Lincolnshire Life Magazine“A page-turner. Prize for the Fire is a gripping saga—a very fine book and a major accomplishment.”—Story Circle Network
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Book SynopsisTracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks - and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.Trade Review“Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis gets to the heart of one of the great debates in the history of conservation: whether there are any true ‘wildernesses’—pristine natural areas untouched by human hands—and, when we set aside protected areas like national parks, whether we should remove evidence of human occupation. The author does a marvelous job weaving O’odham oral traditions and histories into this historical account of Quitobaquito.”—Thomas E. Sheridan, author of Arizona: A History“With engaging prose, Jared Orsi excavates the layers of Indigenous history that underlie this seemingly ‘untouched’ nature reserve, details the environmental and cultural devastation of an increasingly hardened border, challenges the National Park Service—and us—to reckon with its colonial past, and points the way toward reconciliation with the O’odham peoples. The result is a fascinating study of a little-known place in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.”—Marsha Weisiger, author of Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country“Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis provides a trenchant analysis of how cultural heritage, modern management policies challenging that heritage, and local to international forces combined to shape a small, contested desert oasis. Quitobaquito is a tiny and unfamiliar space with lessons for the world.”—Lary M. Dilsaver, author of Preserving the Desert: A History of Joshua Tree National Park
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Book SynopsisTells a story in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.Trade ReviewAnchored in recovered primary sources, and clear and compelling in argument, Dirty Deeds brings to light the full story of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. Later generations will regard this narrative as the definitive study of vigilantism in the West as well as a tour de force of urban history." - Kevin Starr, University Professor and Professor of History, University of Southern California, and author of California: A History"A page-turning narrative of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856, Dirty Deeds reveals a secret agenda of the committee Executives—to resolve conflicting property titles in a manner protecting their own landholding." - Roger D. McGrath, author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier
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