Lineages of the Global City
Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
I Am My Own Path
Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos
A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets.
Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810–1968
This comprehensive volume traces over 200 years of constitutional traditional in Florida, examining constitutions drafted in the state from the territorial era to the most recent version from 1968.
Hill Farms
Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont
Texas Takes Shape
A History in Maps from the General Land Office
Decolonial Environmentalisms
Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production
America's National Cemeteries
A Meditation on History, Memory, and Place
In America’s National Cemeteries, Timothy B. Spears takes the reader on a grand tour of these singular places of commemoration, the final resting place for more than four million American military personnel who died either in wartime, during their time of service, or after their honorable discharge. His absorbing account—part historical narrative and part travelogue—is enhanced by 180 of his remarkable photographs, which capture the spirit, grandeur, and solemn remembrance to be found in each of the 155 national cemeteries across America and abroad.
What We Know, What We Wish
Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History
The Mobile Image
Prints and the Shaping of Devotional Networks from Lima to the Andes and Beyond
Lookout Cave
The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains
This fully illustrated volume sheds new light on Plains culture and the centuries old use of the well-hidden space at Lookout Cave.
C.S. Price
A Portrait
C.S. Price: A Portrait chronicles the life and work of an early Portland modernist painter (1874–1950), who emerged in the 1930s and '40s as a national figure and one of Oregon’s most important and influential artists.
Evolved to Move
Using the Alexander Technique to Reduce Pain and Improve Fitness
This introduction to the groundbreaking Alexander Technique shows all types of healthcare and movement professional how to improve their clients’ posture, liberate their range of motion, and reduce joint pain caused by bad postural habits.
Warfare and the Dynamics of Political Control
Warfare and the Dynamics of Political Control explores how warfare shapes the establishment, maintenance, and collapse of political institutions across diverse societies and historical periods. The chapters cover a wide range of topics and time periods to bring into focus the material and ideological drivers of conflict, offering deep insights into the complex interplay between violence and political power.
The Negotiation of Urgency
Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
The Negotiation of Urgency ethnographically explores the everyday life of an Italian ER, where aging, economic precarity, draconian migration policies, hospital overcrowding, life and death, intersect daily. The analysis of the different, shifting ways in which triage operates and attention circulates in the ER illuminates the practical effects of the changing nature of welfare state in Italy, as elsewhere.
The Black Pack
Comedy, Race, and Resistance
This book tells the story of how five comedic pioneers—Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend, and Arsenio Hall—joined forces to revolutionize American popular culture. Known as Hollywood’s “Black Pack,” they shattered Hollywood norms, using sharp social satire to boldly critique America’s persistent racial inequalities.
Spaces of Creative Resistance
Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia
This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of “creative resistance” to the last two decades of social disconnection, increased income disparity and new burdens placed on reproductive labor and the environment taking place in China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Each chapter demonstrates how individuals and communities across East Asia are making their stands in the everyday--focused on making more liveable presents and more possible futures.
Spaces of Creative Resistance
Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia
This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of “creative resistance” to the last two decades of social disconnection, increased income disparity and new burdens placed on reproductive labor and the environment taking place in China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Each chapter demonstrates how individuals and communities across East Asia are making their stands in the everyday--focused on making more liveable presents and more possible futures.
Monsters vs. Patriarchy
Toxic Imagination in Global Horror Cinema
Monsters vs. Patriarchy examines female monstrosity as it appears in horror films from around the world and considers specific political, scientific, and historical contexts to better understand how we construct and reconstruct monstrosity, using an intersectional approach to examine the imposition of gender and racial hierarchies that support national power structures and horrorize female and other subjects.
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism analyzes what motivates and enables women to become media leaders, what obstacles they face, how they solve problems, and the intersecting impacts of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age. In addition to looking at executive leadership, it considers moral leadership and willingness to innovate. Spanning the history of U.S. commercial, non-commercial, and alternative media, the book includes cases in print, broadcast, PR, film, and digital media.
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism analyzes what motivates and enables women to become media leaders, what obstacles they face, how they solve problems, and the intersecting impacts of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age. In addition to looking at executive leadership, it considers moral leadership and willingness to innovate. Spanning the history of U.S. commercial, non-commercial, and alternative media, the book includes cases in print, broadcast, PR, film, and digital media.
Insiders, Outliers
Centering Adult Student Writers at an HBCU
Insiders, Outliers showcases the educational histories and lifewide writing experiences of adult HBCU students to illuminate critical needs for more age-inclusive practices across academia. Their cases also show the centrality of writing in fueling changes for these students and the people and institutions that they care about—including higher education.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of American labor. This stirring biography traces her personal and political life, foregrounding her commitment to civil liberties as the enduring force behind her worldview and returns her to her rightful place at the heart of the working-class movement.
Climate Bridge
An International Perspective on How to Enact Climate Action at the Government Public Interface
Climate Bridge compares New Jersey and the German Ruhr Region to build an international perspective on how to enact climate action at the government-public interface. The book grew from fifteen years of collaboration between scholars in New Jersey and Germany through summer programs, a landscape architecture design studio, internships for Rutgers students, and joint publications. Notably, settlement patterns and brownfield issues reveal similarities between the underserved in both regions.
American Infanticide
Sexism, Science, and the Politics of Sympathy
Emile Weaver seemed like the perfect college student—a studious, athletic, and popular sorority sister. So why did she kill her newborn baby? American Infanticide answers this question by situating Emile’s tragic crime in a long intellectual and social history that reveals why our legal responses to infanticide are so deeply misguided.
Potter Stinks
Gender and Species in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Compelling analysis of the wizardly literary phenomenon through the lens of contemporary gender and identity discourse
Mutants, Androids, and Aliens
On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
How ordinary human characters interact with more-than-human beings in the MCU
Latino Colorado
The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State
Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado’s population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most official histories of the state mention them only in passing. Latino Colorado fills this gap in the literature by examining the multifaceted experience of Latinos in Colorado from the nineteenth century to the present, from the old Hispano families of southern Colorado to the new arrivals, and from metro Denver to the state’s rural areas of the Western Slope and Eastern Plains.
Conjuring the Haint
The Haunting Poetics of Black Women
The first critical study of the interlocking relationship between haunting, Black women’s lives, and poetry
Choctaw Traditions
Stories of the Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw
A valuable collection of stories that honor the customs and traditions of everyday life in Choctaw communities
Choctaw Tales
Stories from the Firekeepers
A revised and updated treasury of tribal lore told by past and present Choctaw storytellers
Translating the Ketubah
The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England
A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translation
The Lost Cause and the Great War
Progressive Reform and Patriotism in the American South
How Tennessee reformers reconciled Southern heritage with rising nationalism, weaving the Lost Cause into the fabric of American progress and identity
The First Fleets
Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630–1775
A revealing study on the little-known and misunderstood provincial navies established by North American British colonists
The Debt of a Nation
Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73
The Debt of a Nation reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but also its continuing implications for contemporary Canadian politics.
Playing for Power
Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Echoes of Exile
A Family’s Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War
In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.
Echoes of Exile
A Family's Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War
In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.