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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures through something other than heterosexuality...
The War Beat, Europe
The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience. Based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources,...
'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part
Love and Marriage in African America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's...
Vanishing Sensibilities
Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, which included...
Renegotiating French Identity
Musical Culture and Creativity in France during Vichy and the German Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed music as a marker of national identity and cultural achievement, but so too did Vichy. From the opera to...
The Fourth Power
A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Today, even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "containment of communism." In this short, sharp book, Gary Hart outlines a new grand strategy, one directing America's powers to the achievement of its large purposes. Central to this strategy is the power of American...
Privacy Revisited
A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Rapid technological change, the advent of Big Data, and the creation of society-wide government surveillance programs have transformed the accessibility of highly personal information; these developments have highlighted the ambiguous treatment of privacy and personal intimacy. National legal systems...
by Peter Siani-Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
For nearly five years the international press has been gripped by and reported at great length on "the Greek crisis," with news stories gradually filtering out from the deeper recesses of the economic section to the front pages, as the crisis has intensified and mass protests in Athens have caught...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The 1920s saw one of the most striking revolutions in manners and morals to have marked North American society, affecting almost every aspect of life, from dress and drink to sex and salvation. Protestant Christianity was being torn apart by a heated controversy between traditionalists and the modernists,...
by James Bradfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
There are many textbooks for business students that provide a systematic, introductory development of the economics of financial markets. However, there are as yet no introductory textbooks aimed at more easily daunted undergraduate liberal arts students. Introduction to the Economics of Financial...
Democracy without Citizens
Media and the Decay of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1990
"The free press cannot be free," Robert Entman asserts. "Inevitably, it is dependent." In this penetrating critique of American journalism and the political process, Entman identifies a "vicious circle of interdependence" as the key dilemma facing reporters and editors. To become sophisticated citizens,...
Terror in the Balance
Security, Liberty, and the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency. They emphasize the virtues of unilateral executive actions and argue for making...
The First Miracle Drugs
How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines were not penicillin and antibiotics, but sulfonamides, or sulfa drugs. The sulfa...
Ain't I a Beauty Queen?
Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2002
"Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty...