John Keats
Thai Women in the Global Labor Force
Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
By Airship to the North Pole
An Archaeology of Human Exploration
Women and Politics in Latin America
They Married Adventure
The Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of self-reliance.
Pretty in Punk
Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture
Jersey Blue
Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854–1865
Heresy in the University
The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals
Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?
The Asian Ethnic Experience Today
Mia Tuan examines the salience and meaning of ethnicity for later generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, and asks how their concepts of ethnicity differ from that of white ethnic Americans. She interviewed 95 middle-class Chinese and Japanese Californians and analyzes the importance of ethnic identities and the concept of becoming a "real" American for both Asian and white ethnics. She asks her subjects about their early memories and experiences with Chinese/Japanese culture; current lifestyle and emerging cultural practices; experiences with racism and discrimination; and attitudes toward current Asian immigration.
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers
African Fractals
Modern Computing and Indigenous Design
Writing Under the Raj
Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947
The Planetary Interest
Talking Leadership
Conversations with Powerful Women
Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700
Consuming Environments
Television and Commercial Culture
William Troy
Selected Essays
Ways of the World
A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them
This is the first comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, bridges, and the people and vehicles that traverse them, from prehistoric times to the present. Encyclopedic in its scope, fascinating in its details, Ways of the World is a unique work for reference and browsing. Maxwell Lay considers the myriad aspects of roads and their users: the earliest pathways, the rise of wheeled vehicles and animals to pull them, the development of surfaced roads, the motives for road and bridge building, and the rise of cars and their influence on roads, cities, and society. The work is amply illustrated, well indexed and cross-referenced, and includes a chronology of road history and a full bibliography.
It is indispensable for anyone interested in travel, history, geography, transportation, cars, or the history of technology.