University Of Illinois Press imprint: 158 books
Baseball
A History of America's Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also analyzes...
Teacher Strike!
Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from...
Sewing the Fabric of Statehood
Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Long a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel. Throughout the project, Jewish labor often operated outside of official channels as non-governmental organizations. Adam Howard explores the untold story...
The Loyal West
Civil War and Reunion in Middle America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West--a myth rooted in regional and racial animosities and the belief that westerners had won...
Becoming Refugee American
The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees ”as opposed to willing immigrants ”profoundly influenced...
Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own...
In Search of Belonging
Latinas, Media, and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, makes sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media. Jillian M. Báez's eye-opening ethnographic analysis draws on the experiences of a diverse group of Latinas in Chicago. In-depth interviews...
by Donna Kornhaber
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a filmmaking force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self-indulgent eclecticism. Donna...
Africans and Native Americans
The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native American and African American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans explores key issues relating to the evolution...
by Lutz Koepnick
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie...
Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima
Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio...
Complaint
Grievance among Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
"It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their grotesque contentment and unfathomable rejection...
Just One of the Boys
Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth century America, and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered...
Recasting Folk in the Himalayas
Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the œfolk designation...