Purdue University Press: 164 books
Flying the Beam
Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected...
Women Count
A Guide to Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what’s next? It’s time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in their community, there has never been a better time for women to make a difference in the world,...
From Shtetl to Stardom
Jews and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex...
by Irene Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese José Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J. M. Coetzee. In...
Calculated Risk
The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revsied and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance to walk on the moon and return to describe his journey. Others went in his place. The stories...
Unfinalized Moments
Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection...
"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot
Navigating the Century of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly...
Center Stage
Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long"...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Jews and humor is for most people a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of or perhaps because of a history of crises and living on the edge Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is "humor"? and what makes certain types instances or performances of humor "Jewish"?...
by Charles Ingrao, Jovan Pešalj
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Pozarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Sultan, and the Republic of Venice gathered to end the conflict that had begun three and a half years...
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund
A Memoir of Interwar Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different...
Reframing Italy
New Trends in Italian Womens Filmmaking
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognized women directors...
Never Look Back
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once...
Crowns, Crosses, and Stars
My Youth in Prussia, Surviving Hitler, and a Life Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage...