For Home and Empire
Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War
For Home and Empire compares home-front mobilization during the First World War in three British dominions, using a settler colonial framework to show that voluntary efforts strengthened communal bonds while reinforcing class, race, and gender boundaries.
Food Town, USA
Seven Unlikely Cities That are Changing the Way We Eat
What sparked this revolution? To find out, Mark Winne traveled to seven cities not usually considered revolutionary. He broke bread with brew masters and city council members, farmers and philanthropists, toured start-up incubators and homeless shelters. What he discovered was remarkable, even inspiring. The cities of Food Town, USA remind us that innovation is ripening all across the country, especially in the most unlikely places.
Detain and Punish
Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System
Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network of more than two hundred detention facilities. This book investigates when detention became a centerpiece of U.S. immigration policy. Detain and Punish reveals why the practice was reinstituted in 1981 after being halted for several decades and how the system expanded to become the world’s largest immigration detention regime.
Culture and the Soldier
Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements
Culture and the Soldier offers a long-overdue examination of how culture – defined as reproduced identities, values, and norms – both shapes the military and can be wielded by it, informing the way armed forces operate around the world.
Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat
Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition
Catch and Release
An Oregon Life in Politics
Capturing Hill 70
Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War
This richly illustrated book offers a multifaceted account of one of the most successful but overlooked Canadian battles of the First World War.
Big Wonderful Thing
A History of Texas
Bea Nettles
Harvest of Memory
A World without Martha
A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
A World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister’s institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society’s inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.
The Way of the Cross
Suffering Selfhoods in the Roman Catholic Philippines
Puppets, Gods, and Brands
Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis
Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear
Making Sense of the City
Public Spaces in the Philippines
Karen Tei Yamashita
Fictions of Magic and Memory
From Free Port to Modern Economy
Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
Understanding a Tradition of Practice
Toward Translingual Realities in Composition
(Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices
Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
How children have used story and play to navigate problems and delineate ethnic boundaries
Visible Cities, Global Comics
Urban Images and Spatial Form
A definitive study on how urban places are reflected in comics
Tyler Perry
Interviews
A career-spanning collection of interviews with the multimedia phenomenon who has directed groundbreaking films like Diary of a Mad Black Woman that feature mostly African American actors and tell stories about adversity, faith, family, and redemption
Superman in Myth and Folklore
How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth
Posthuman Folklore
The first book-length study of how animal studies and digital culture change what it means to be “us”
Po' Monkey's
Portrait of a Juke Joint
A photographic tour of a quintessential staple of the Mississippi blues
Mulata Nation
Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba
A vivid exploration of the key role played by multiracial women in visualizing and performing Cuban identity
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
The Making of a Masterpiece, Revised and Updated
The quintessential book about one of the twentieth century’s most iconic albums
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
A Historical Perspective
An inclusive survey from Frederick Douglass to the voices of Black Lives Matter
Reel Latinxs
Representation in U.S. Film and TV
Re-Creating Nature
Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century
Meditación Fronteriza
Poems of Love, Life, and Labor
Letters to Jargon
The Correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams
