The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean
Bringing together specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, this volume uses a historical archaeological approach to explore the importance of the region to the emergence of modernity and globalization.
Some Magnetic Force
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Writings
Women and Music in the Age of Austen
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights women’s central role in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes their formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays reveals how music allowed for women’s self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality.
Two-Year College Writing Studies
Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching
Two-Year College Writing Studies is a comprehensive overview of the two-year college writing teaching experience within our current political and historical contexts, with examples for teachers to better enact just teaching practices in their colleges.
Transpacific Cartographies
Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Melody Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task.
Time in the Barrel
A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien
There She Goes Again
Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises
The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy
Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing
The Latino Big Bang in California
The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner
The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Stories of Our Living Ephemera
Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907
Stories of Our Living Ephemera recovers the history of the Cherokee National Seminaries from scattered archives and colonized research practices by critically weaving together pedagogy and archival artifacts with Cherokee traditional stories and Indigenous worldviews.
Not Alone
LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985
Between 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual educators (LGB) formed communities and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers in New York, Los Angeles and Northern California.
Fictions of Pleasure
The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France
This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores how the fictional utopia the narrators of these salacious pseudo-memoirs undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien Régime and propose a social model in which women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.
China and the Internet
Using New Media for Development and Social Change
China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically-informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19.
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica
Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica.
Between Care and Criminality
Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare
Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.
When Language Broke Open
An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent
This collection of creative offerings by forty-three queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent helps illustrate Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. In centering the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community, the anthology's contributors challenge everything we think we know about gender, sexuality, race, and what it means to experience a livable life.
Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island
Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery
Llamas beyond the Andes
Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.
Light As Light
Poems
Light As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortiz’s first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume are a powerful journey through the poet’s life—both a love letter to the future, and a sentimental, authentic celebration of the past.
Breaking the Gender Code
Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
Aggression and Sufferings
Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South
A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity
Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America
This volume features a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to underwater and coastal archaeology in Latin America, showcasing the efforts of 82 researchers working across the region.
The Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
Justice Pursued
The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
An in-depth look at a wrongful conviction and its landmark reversal, this book is the story of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams, who were released in 2019 after almost 43 years in prison in the first exoneration brought about through a Conviction Integrity Unit in Florida.