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Southwest Passage
The Yanks in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur’s arrival...
In Food We Trust
The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States’ food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration...
How to Reach Japan by Subway
America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945–1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Japan’s official surrender to the United States in 1945 brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level diplomatic relations but also in...
by Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans think of the Great War simply as a precursor to World War II. Americans, including veterans, hastened to put experiences and memories of the war years...
America's U-Boats
Terror Trophies of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by *Choice
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press* is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth...
Dodgerland
Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977–78 Dodgers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 1977–78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. The Dodgers’ run was a long time in the making after years of struggle and featured many homegrown players who went on to noteworthy...
by Thomas P. Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804–6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition’s success...
Gabriel Okara
Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early...
Storyworlds across Media
Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and...
The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader
The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American West. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with such vividness, gusto, and...
Invisible Reality
Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award
Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award
Rosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people’s relationship and mode of interaction with the “invisible reality” of the supernatural...
Hunting Caribou
Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist...
Portrait of an Island
The Architecture and Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758–1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The once famous trading center of Gorée, Sénégal today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Gorée became one of the intersections which linked African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then, as now, people of all nationalities...