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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region and over time. John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage...
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker’s psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How...
Contra Instrumentalism
A Translation Polemic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
*Contra Instrumentalism *questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence...
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood...
French Mediterraneans
Transnational and Imperial Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region’s seas and controlled...
Bird at the Buzzer
UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women's Basketball Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
On March 6, 2001, the top two women’s college basketball teams in the nation, UConn and Notre Dame, played what was arguably the greatest game in the history of the sport. When UConn’s Sue Bird hit a twelve-foot pull-up jumper at the buzzer over national player of the year Ruth Riley in the Big...
The French Army and Its African Soldiers
The Years of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that...
The Lawyer of the Church
Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.
The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican...
The Hard Way Home
Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. When he wasn’t guiding in the spring and fall, he worked as a commercial...
Redeeming the Revolution
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary...
Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico
The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul von Hintze, 1912-1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911 to serve as Germany’s ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Germany’s emperor Wilhelm II had selected Hintze as his personal eyes and ears in Mexico (and concomitantly the neighboring United States) during the portentous...
Religious, Feminist, Activist
Cosmologies of Interconnection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their...
Holding On
African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the...
Soldiers of the Nation
Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices. While scholars of American imperialism have examined...