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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic...
Taking Liberties
Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786–1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation. Taking Liberties is a study of what may...
Haunted by Waters
Fly Fishing in North American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative and tries to answer these questions for himself....
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America
A Revolution on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families...
by Jonathan Huener
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world.
Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz...
The Rescue of Joshua Glover
A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen...
Internal Frontiers
African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress’s development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history...
African Miracle, African Mirage
Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent. At the same time, Marxist scholars—most notably Samir Amin—described the capitalist activity...
The Life and Death of Gus Reed
A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and...
The Red Earth
A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection between...
Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of “legitimate goods”...
Inventing Pollution
Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns...
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism...
Indiana’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Indiana’s War is a primary source collection featuring the writings of Indiana’s citizens during the Civil War era. Using private letters, official records, newspaper articles, and other original sources, the volume presents the varied experiences of Indiana’s participants in the war both on...