The Precious Birthright
Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island
The University of Arizona
A History in 100 Stories
The University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories is a celebration of the people, ideas, inventions, teaching, and structures that have been part of the school’s evolution from a small land-grant institution to an internationally renowned research institution.
The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde
Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil
The Geysers of Yellowstone
Sixth Edition
This new edition of The Geysers of Yellowstone is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to the geysers of Yellowstone National Park, describing in detail each of the more than five hundred geysers in the park.
The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado
The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado is an environmental history of the endless missteps and unforeseen consequences that characterized Colorado’s participation in the Carey Act—an 1894 federal law that granted one million acres of desert-classified public land to each western state for private irrigation development and settlement.
River of Renewal
Myth and History in the Klamath Basin
River of Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Klamath Basin, which spans the Oregon-California border, from the first human habitation of the region to restoration of the watershed and its wildlife after removal of the Klamath River’s four hydroelectric dams.
Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala
Natural Disaster and Sociocultural Change in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán
Landscapes of Movement and Predation
Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology
Landscapes of Movement and Predation is a global study of times and places, in the colonial and precolonial eras, where people were subject to brutality, displacement, and loss of life, liberty, livelihood, and possessions. The book provides a startling new perspective on an aspect of the past that is often overlooked: the role of violence in shaping where, how, and with whom people lived.
Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication
Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication explores the multiple and sometimes conflicting uses of terms central to the discipline of technical and professional communication (TPC).
Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces
Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces applies Indigenous frameworks and epistemologies to online cultural movements through four case studies, including hashtags, memes, cryptocurrency, and digital artistry, and develops decolonizing practices for digital rhetoric, online identity work, and digital literacy practices.
Heenan Blaikie
The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm
What really happened at Heenan Blaikie? This is the ultimate account of what went on behind the scenes of the largest law firm dissolution in Canadian history.
Florida Springs
From Geography to Politics and Restoration
This book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the geography, history, science, and politics of Florida’s freshwater springs, informing readers about the deep past and current issues facing these natural wonders of the state.
Feathered Entanglements
Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene
Feathered Entanglements investigates human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific and shows what birds can teach us about how to live with other species in the Anthropocene.
Drumming Our Way Home
Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Drumming Our Way Home takes readers on an autobiographical journey to recover Indigenous identity, demonstrating how storytelling – aided by a hand drum – can open up a new world of pedagogy and culture-based learning.
Colonial Cataclysms
Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico's Little Ice Age
Colonial Cataclysms explores the human and environmental consequences of the global climate event called the Little Ice Age as it played out in central Mexico during the era of Spanish imperialism. It focuses on the great floods, massive soil erosion, and human adaptations to these cataclysms.
Ancillary Police Powers in Canada
A Critical Reassessment
Ancillary Police Powers in Canada investigates the scope of police powers under Canadian common law, and the implications for our rights, freedoms, and individual liberty.
Walking East Harlem
A Neighborhood Experience
East Harlem native Christopher Bell takes you on three separate walking tours of his beloved neighborhood, sharing fascinating stories about its theatres, museums, art spaces, schools, churches, mosques, and synagogues. You’ll also learn about the people who have lived in this famously diverse community, including actress Cecily Tyson and opera singer Marian Anderson.
Unsettling Sexuality
Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Unsettling Sexuality brings queer, trans, and asexual lenses to bear on the long eighteenth century. Drawing from Middle-Eastern and Asian studies, African American studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies, the authors pioneer intersectional readings of European, transatlantic, and global eighteenth-century archives that unsettle traditional ways of approaching the field, to welcome sexuality as something that can resist rigidity.
Unsettling Sexuality
Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Unsettling Sexuality brings queer, trans, and asexual lenses to bear on the long eighteenth century. Drawing from Middle-Eastern and Asian studies, African American studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies, the authors pioneer intersectional readings of European, transatlantic, and global eighteenth-century archives that unsettle traditional ways of approaching the field, to welcome sexuality as something that can resist rigidity.
Remittance as Belonging
Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home
Conceptualizing remittance as an expression of migrants’ belonging, this book presents detailed accounts of the emergence, growth, decline, and revival of remittance as a function of transformations in Bangladeshi migrants’ sense of belonging to home.
Pandemonium Logs
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2020–2022
In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.
Our Science, Ourselves
How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science
More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans – be it other species or technology – become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.
More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans – be it other species or technology – become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.
Making It
Success in the Commercial Kitchen
The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. But what determines who succeeds or fails in this pressure-cooker environment? Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, sociologist Ellen Meiser discovers how status in the kitchen is tied to knowledge, interpersonal skills, and emotional labor.
Genocide Studies
Pathways Ahead
In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future
Genocide Studies
Pathways Ahead
In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These crises confound definition and label, but now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Using a media studies lens of television, film, music, and digital culture, Finding God in All the Black Places argues that Black spirituality and church religiosity bolster audiences' understanding of and cultural competence with Black popular culture.
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty serves as a resource for Historically Black College and University (HBCU) stakeholders and highlights fundamental concerns and urgent topics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) HBCU constituents.
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty
Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty serves as a resource for Historically Black College and University (HBCU) stakeholders and highlights fundamental concerns and urgent topics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) HBCU constituents.
Difficult Attachments
Anxieties of Kinship and Care
Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. But, what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is characterized by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of care? This edited volume, featuring slim and cutting-edge essays from a diverse group of anthropologists at different career stages, explores situations when kinship is experienced as difficult and ambivalent.
Care and Agency
The Andean Community through the Eyes of Children
This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children’s own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using ethnographic methods. It shows the great variety of Andean childhoods – some happy, others harsh and demanding – and suggests the options children face: follow the many to migrate to the city or risk their hopes on a better future in the rural setting.
Biomythography Bayou
More than just a book of memoir, Biomythography Bayou is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Showcasing the nature, folklore, dialect, foodways, music, and art of the Gulf South communities in which she is rooted, Mel Michelle Lewis finds poetic ways to celebrate their power and wisdom.
Background Artist
The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
Background Artist tells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film, Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.
Oligarchy in America
Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few
A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs
A Republican's Lament
Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives
A political writer’s compelling mix of history, political analysis, and personal angst
Tourism Geopolitics
Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination
Tourism Geopolitics offers a unique and timely intervention into the growing significance of tourism in geopolitical life as well as the intrinsically geopolitical nature of the tourism industry.