Nahua Horizons
Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico
Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico challenges the notion that the Spanish erased Nahua culture. Ezekiel Stear’s bold new approach sheds light on ways in which Nahua people forged paths ahead in times of uncertainty and sweeping change.
Guilt and Finnegans Wake
From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body
Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.
Us According to Them
Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico
The Nine O'Clock Whistle
Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina
The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts
Soul of the Court
The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.
The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge
Prophetic Peril
The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives
A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders
Our Story in Many Voices
The Alaska State Museum Catalog and Guide
Alaska preserves and exhibits its own culture and history in the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau, the home of the State Library, Archives, and Museum. With this catalogue and guide, the meaning of the museum exhibits gains new depth.
Lloyd Kaufman
Interviews
An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs
Deep Roots, Broken Branches
A History and Memoir
A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family
Conversations with Ted Kooser
Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary
Black Saturation
Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson
The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature
Atravesados
Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature
A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders
Animating the Victorians
Disney's Literary History
A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse
The Thin Edge of Innovation
Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy
The Thin Edge of Innovation charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city.
The Shock of Colonialism in New England
Fragments from a Frontier
Physicians for the People
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970
Algorithmic Worldmaking
The Rhetorical Craft of Networked Order
Unearthing Forgotten Values
Toward a Meaningful Archaeological Practice
Unearthing Forgotten Values offers a practical corrective that restores human values to commercial archaeology by putting Indigenous communities first.
The Rise of Tzu Chi
The Making of a Global Buddhist Movement
The Rise of Tzu Chi reveals a dynamic Asian religious movement that draws its global success from its capacity to incorporate diversity.
Rewriting the Word "God"
In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry
Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”
Caribbean Inhospitality
The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that the inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation/state.
Ballots and Brawls
The 1867 Canadian General Election
Ballots and Brawls, the first book dedicated solely to Canada’s inaugural election in 1867, is an engaging look at the main players, regional concerns, and nationalistic ideals that characterized the country’s beginnings.
The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare
In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.
Somos Tejanas!
Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
Roman Bioarchaeology
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World
In this book, researchers use human skeletal remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history.