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University of Virginia Press Anecdotes of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisProvides a literary history of the anecdote in English. Drawing on extensive archival research and emphasizing the anecdote as a way of thinking, James Robert Wood shows that an intimate relationship developed between the anecdote and the Enlightenment concept of human nature.
£38.90
University of Virginia Press American Abolitionism Its Direct Political
Book SynopsisProvides a systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics - petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians - and on their disruptions of slavery itself.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Caribbean Jewish Crossings
Book SynopsisThe first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate Jewish motifs in their work, scholars have neglected this strain in studies of Caribbean literature.Trade Review" Caribbean Jewish Crossings will make a significant contribution to diaspora, Caribbean, and Jewish studies, as well as to related fields (postcolonial, Holocaust, and American studies) because it provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to a largely overlooked yet critical aspect of Caribbean history and literary history. Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman are the leading scholars in the field, and they have included an impressively broad selection of scholarship." On the heels on Sarah Phillips Casteel’s ground-breaking study of Jewishness in the Caribbean, Calypso Jews, this excellent collection, co-edited with Casteel and Heidi Kaufman, continues to explore this important and generally neglected nexus. The discourse around "Blacks and Jews" has often overlooked the historically and culturally rich points of intersection between these groups in the Caribbean. Diasporic Caribbean literature as well as native texts reflect these overlaps in fascinating ways that Caribbean Jewish Crossings, organized thematically, foregrounds. The anthology includes scholarly essays as well as creative and thoughtful works by Caribbean and other writers. A beautiful reflection from the thoughtful and prolific English-Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips tells the origin story of one of his most fascinating texts, The Nature of Blood. The novel, he tells us, was largely written out of the familiar spaces of New York, London, and St. Kitts, in Bangkok, in diaspora, in a state of foreignness. As he wove the stories together that would form into this intricate novel, Phillips was reminded how "appallingly circular history can be, how replete with ironies, how chilling.
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University of Virginia Press Backlash Libel Impeachment and Populism in the
Book SynopsisIn her engagingly written Backlash, Rachel Carnell tells the entertaining account of the reign of Queen Anne and the true story behind the fall of the Whig government depicted in the 2018 film The Favourite. As Carnell shows, the truth was significantly different and in many ways more interesting than what the film depicted.
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University of Virginia Press Making the World Over Confronting Racism
Book SynopsisExamines the histories behind the issues at the root of America's conflicts both past and present, from race and immigration to misogyny and reproductive rights. This is more than a study of the issues; it is an attempt to shed real light on how to encourage constructive dialogue and move society forward.Trade ReviewGriffith approaches complex ideas in a way that is thoughtful, concise, and provocative without being incendiary.
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University of Virginia Press Women in George Washingtons World
Book SynopsisA lively and accessibly written volume, this book highlights some of the women whom Washington knew. Women who admired and memorialized him, women who provided him love and solace, women who frustrated him, and women who worked for or against him - all of these women are chronicled through their own experiences and identities.Trade ReviewThis stunning collection of essays is a valuable study of George Washington and the women who inhabited his world. Based on the best work of contemporary historians and sound archival research, the book is also engagingly written. A substantial contribution to the field."- Barbara Oberg, Princeton University, author of Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith
Book SynopsisIn this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Elizabeth Smith’s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Mourning the Presidents
Book SynopsisThe death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. This volume brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have eulogized and remembered US presidents since George Washington’s death in 1799.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Drone Enlightenment
Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on the United States’ use of killer drones during the War on Terror, Drone Enlightenment argues that this kind of warfare has its intellectual, ideological, and practical roots in the way the Enlightenment imagined moral agency, occupation, race, and sovereignty.Trade Review“DeGabriele makes original use of the drone and contemporary drone warfare to open up new readings of the early Enlightenment natural right tradition, as well as using that tradition to reread the drone to examine its relation to questions of sovereignty, occupation and the right to kill. The book straddles Enlightenment philosophy, British literature, warfare, and colonialism past and present, breathing fresh life into an often asthmatic area of scholarship.” - Tony C. Brown, University of Minnesota, author of The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment ProblematicTable of Contents 1. Sovereign (Ir)responsibility 2. Remote Occupation 3. Deferred Extermination Introduction: Drone Warfare, Enlightenment, and Asymmetry Epilogue: Publicity and Mediation Bibliography
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Break and Flow Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas
Book SynopsisDraws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Charlie Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.Trade Review“Break and Flow is the product of great learning and greater passion. It draws on Hankin’s extensive fieldwork in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti to showcase the poetic innovation and political impact of rap artists responding to colonial legacies, present-day political circumstances, and their own aesthetic imperatives. Hankin’s book exercises close analysis (by eye and by ear), critical theory, and a keen historical sensibility to produce a work of scholarship that celebrates three underexplored sites of hip-hop artistry.” - Adam Bradley, UCLA, author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip HopTable of Contents Introduction 1. Yearning: "Nan lòt dimansyon" 2. Raplove: "Es lo que hay" 3. Uprooting: "Qué importa si sonamos americano hermano" 4. Scale: "Rap é meu lugar" 5. Writing: "Enraizados da letra" 6. Violence: "Sou fèy blanch" Epilogue: En-/un-gendering Hip Hop
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University of Virginia Press Constitutional Powers and Politics How Citizens
Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to the American governing system.Trade Review“A well-written, well-researched, and timely book that takes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing questions core to American democracy. Braman uses an impressive array of nationally representative survey experiments and paints a nuanced picture of how the public views institutional change and legitimacy. This is a one-of-a-kind book in the field of political science.” - Paul M. Collins Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making“The American political system is in crisis. Gridlock has given way to anti-democratic sentiments that delegitimize the polity. Braman offers a remarkable perspective by pinpointing what shapes Americans’ beliefs about institutions. Cutting edge theory and rigorous empirical analyses reveal that when people believe institutions are working against personal and societal interests, they support fundamental change to the governance structure. Braman’s foundational contribution reorients conversations by making clear that democracy can be sustained with popular institutional changes.” - James N. Druckman, Northwestern University, co-author, with Lawrence R. Jacobs, of Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and ManipulationTable of Contents List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Conceptualizing and Studying Perceptions of Appropriate Government Authority and Support for Institutional Change 2. Exploring the Role of Rules and Politics in Evaluations of Judicial, Legislative, and Unilateral Executive Action 3. Assessing the Credibility of Constitutional Experts 4. Examining Justifications for Citizens' Evaluations of Legislative Action on Gun Control and Immigration 5. Valuing Institutions: The United States Supreme Court 6. Electoral Expectations and Support for Constitutional Change 7. Institutional Prospects: Measuring Support for Changes to the Supreme Court Conclusion References Appendix
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University of Virginia Press Inkface Othello and White Authority in the Era
Book SynopsisTraces productions of Shakespeare’s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Miles Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience.Table of Contents Introduction: The Residue of Inkface 1. The Moor of Venice Reconstructed "O Bloody Period": Othello's Constitution and Significance "Letter and Affection," or Iago's Motive Reconsidered Interlude: Desdemona's Guilt, or "The Farce of Dead Alive" 2. "Be Thus When Thou Art Dead": Aphra Benh's Remediation of Othello 3. "Pale as thy Smock": Abigail Adams in Desdemona's Whites 4. The Cherokee Othello: Treating with 'The Base Indian' 5. Inkface to Chalkbones: The End of White Character Mastery in Melville's "BC" Epilogue: An Ultimate Reader
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University of Virginia Press Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature
Book SynopsisArgues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and systematically manipulating this tension, these authors’ works sought to court the reader while at the same time also challenging emergent concepts of ‘literature’.Table of Contents Introduction 1. Of Heirs and "Bold Purloiner[s]": Shadwell's Alternative Models of Literary Inheritance in The Lancashire Withces and The Squire of Alsatia 2. "Can my Imagination feel?": Reading, Theatricality, and the Mind-Body Problem in Aphra Behn's The Lucky Chance and The Emperor of the Moon 3. Textual Timelessness, Performative Time: Posterity in Congreve's Love for Love and The Way of the World 4. "Take this sad Ballad, which I bought at Fair": Pastoral Performance and Print Capitalism in John Gay's The What D'Ye Call It and The Beggar's Opera Conclusion
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible
Book SynopsisThe language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader’s sense of its impenetrability. This book offers a close reading of the Bible itself, directing attention to the text rather than to commentaries or to ostensible lessons to be discovered by paraphrase.Table of Contents 1. Preliminary 2. On Eating Honey 3. Paul on Life and Death 4. Heaven is Here 5. Seeing Revelation: The Writing 6. Seeing Revelation: The Images 7. Seeing Revelation: The Timing
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Design Before Disaster Japans Culture of Preparedness
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Does Privilege Prevail Litigation in High Courts
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Black Reason White Feeling The Jeffersonian
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Belgian Friendship Building
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John Wiley & Sons Biography of a Tenement House in New York City
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John Wiley & Sons The UnChosen Body Disability Culture in Israel
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MI - New York University The Net Effect Romanticism Capitalism and the Internet
Book SynopsisLooks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. This book demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention.Trade ReviewThe Net Effect makes a great contribution to our knowledge on the question of labor in Internet technology. * International Journal of Communciation *The Net Effect is an excellent resource for anyone reseraching the influence of society on technology. * CHOICE *& We are romantics even, and perhaps especially, in the face of high technologies, writes Thomas Streeter. In his profound and illuminating analysis of the interactions between technology and desire, Streeter shows how conflicting visions of the internet have not so much reflected the pre-given triumph of a new technology as shaped the possibilities and limitations of who we are and who we might become. -- Peter Stallybrass,University of PennsylvaniaOne part palm reader and one part politico, Streeter makes total sense of the Internet: its 60s roots, its 90s ethos, and why it works and feels the way it does today. Whether or not you remember firsthand what a long strange trip its been, The Net Effect will persuade you with its lucid rendering of the shared experiences, strange bedfellows, and stealth mythologies that have shaped what it means to be online. -- Lisa Gitelman,NYU, and author of Always, Already New: Media, History, and the Data of CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 "Self-Motivating Exhilaration": On the Cultural Sources of Computer Communication2 Romanticism and the Machine: The Formation of the Computer Counterculture3 Missing the Net: The 1980s, Microcomputers, and the Rise of Neoliberalism4 Networks and the Social Imagination5 The Moment of Wired 6 Open Source, the Expressive Programmer, and the Problem of PropertyConclusion: Capitalism, Passions, Democracy Notes IndexAbout the Author
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MI - New York University Puro Arte Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
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Syracuse University Press Waiting for the Past
Book SynopsisHadiya Hussein’s poignant 2017 novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein’s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she loves.
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John Wiley & Sons Oceanic Connections
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John Wiley & Sons Heritage
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Syracuse University Press Banshees Hags and Changelings
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Syracuse University Press Intersections
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change.Table of ContentsModernist Arab Women Writers: A Historical Overview, Salma Khadra Jayyusi; ""Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab Feminism in a Transnational World,"" Amal Amireh; ""Reenvisioning National Community in Salwa Bakr's The Golden Chariot,"" Magda al-Noweihi; ""The Sixth Day of Compassion: The Impossible Communities of Life Toward Death,"" Mary Layoun; ""Partitions and Precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian Political Geography,"" Barbara Harlow; ""A Country Beyond Reach: Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian Diaspora,"" Therese Saliba; ""Strategic Androgyny: Passing as Masculine in Barakat's Stone of Laughter,"" Mona Fayad; ""The Fourth Language: Subaltern Expression in Djebar's Fantasia,"" Nada Elia; ""Voice, Representation and Resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose,"" Lisa Suhair Majaj; ""Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra: A Counter-Narrative and a Counter-History,"" Sabah Ghandour.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Representing the Unpresentable
Book SynopsisExplores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. This book focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture in the production of the contemporary nation. It examines various discourses that have constituted the image of the ""Babi.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the growing and exciting body of scholarship in the fields of Iranian studies, Middle East studies, gender studies, Iranian cinema, and cultural studies. Its author is a rising star in the field.
£22.46
Syracuse University Press Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the
Book SynopsisSheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari‘a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson’s archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women’s position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women’s active participation in their legal affairs.Trade ReviewThis book will fascinate scholars and students in the field of Israeli-Palestinian history, gender, and empire. Brownson weaves together a nuanced presentation of the complex formal structures of Muslim family law in Mandate (and post-Mandate) Palestine with the actual experience of the women involved in it. Particularly striking is the degree to which women could bend a strongly patriarchal system to achieve their own needs.
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Syracuse University Press Working Out Desire
Book SynopsisExamines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.
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Syracuse University Press Winslow Homer and His Cullercoats Paintings
Book SynopsisIn his Cullercoats paintings, Winslow Homer took as his main subject the lives and labours of the village's women and their strong sense of community. These paintings display his masterly uses of watercolor. The Cullercoats paintings show Homer in a new light, and Tatham's revelatory account provides the long-overdue attention they deserve.
£44.96
Syracuse University Press Perspectives on Crazy ExGirlfriend
Book SynopsisFocusing on themes of feminism, gender identity, and mental health, contributors explore the ways in which the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend challenged viewer expectations, as well as the role television critics play in identifying a show's ""authenticity"" or quality.
£56.95
Syracuse University Press Chick TV
Book SynopsisBrings antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the subtle ways in which they perform feminist resistance. Offering a retooling of gendered media analyses, Yael Levy finds antiheroism not only in the morally questionable cop and tormented lawyer, but also in characters who inhabit more stereotypical feminine roles.
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Syracuse University Press Literary Optics
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John Wiley & Sons Empires in Friction Egypt in the Sixteenth
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John Wiley & Sons The Irish Bildungsroman
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John Wiley & Sons Fatema Mernissi for Our Times
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John Wiley & Sons The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish Poems from the
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John Wiley & Sons Mother Tongues of the High Andes
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John Wiley & Sons Mother Tongues of the High Andes
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John Wiley & Sons Rooted in Place
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University of Minnesota Press Critique Of Cynical Reason
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University of Minnesota Press Screening The Body Tracing Medicines Visual
Book SynopsisMoving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such use become established/accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? This book traces the history of scientific film since the late 19th century.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Open Horizons
Book SynopsisThis text presents the author's inspirational life story, told in his own words. Olson recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions, to decades-long conservation battles.
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University of Minnesota Press Opera
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University of Minnesota Press Sowing Empire
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University of Minnesota Press In The Break
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An ambitious work, In the Break shows that the classic opposition between singularity and totality is invalidated by black thought, history, life, and culture. In the Break is a truly original and inventive work that needs to be read and heard."—Avery Gordon, author of Ghostly Matters"Moten makes great sense of the author’s complementary attractions of ‘same’ and ‘change.’"—Rough Pages"Fred Moten’s dynamic and ambitious In the Break explores the tension between jazz’s social and aesthetic dimensions as the animating force behind the music, contextualizing the avant-garde work of the 1960s within a narrative arc that encompasses the entire history of the African diaspora."—American Quarterly"The result of Moten’s work is always more than a performance, more than the aggregate of gestures that falls within the valorized space of performative writing: In the Break marks an event according to the terms with which Moten describes it—encounter, ensemble, improvisation, and the invocation of the knowledge of freedom."—MLN"It’s a work that rewards careful study and repeated consultation, and invites extension, development, debate, and sustained intellectual improvisation on its protean themes."—Cross Cultural Poetics"In the Break mounts a poststructuralist assault upon the sovereign subject, disciplined sexuality, and gender training."—American Literary History
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