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The Celebrity Monarch

Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait

University of Delaware Press

The Celebrity Monarch argues that portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) shaped both modern female portraiture and celebrity. Close study of portraits of Elisabeth, renowned as the most beautiful woman in Europe, along with her private collection of celebrity photography reveals her agency in shaping her own representation and the significance of her construction for modern Viennese artists and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.
 

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Allegory and the Poetic Self

First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature

University Press of Florida
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Visualizing Genocide

Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums

The University of Arizona Press

Visualizing Genocide engages the often sparse and biased discourses of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities documented in exhibits, archives, and museums. Essayists and artists from a range of disciplines identify how Native knowledge can be effectively incorporated into memory spaces.

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The Title of Totonicapán

University Press of Colorado

This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.

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Steinbeck’s Imaginarium

Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

University of New Mexico Press
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Latinx Poetics

Essays on the Art of Poetry

Edited by Ruben Quesada; Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
University of New Mexico Press

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.

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Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology

Methods, Applications, and Advances

University Press of Florida
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Ingredients for Revolution

A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses

Concordia University Press

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Ingredients for Revolution is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present.

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Born with a Copper Spoon

A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980

UBC Press

Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.

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Becoming Catawba

Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840

University of Alabama Press

The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation

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How Schools Meet Students' Needs

Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor

Rutgers University Press

Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Students' Needs explores the factors that enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet students' needs and the consequences of how schools organize this work on teachers' labor and students' learning.
 

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The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City

Rutgers University Press

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the campaign and narrative of the "Puerto Rican problem" in New York City from 1945 to 1960. It looks at how this campaign influenced the incorporation of Puerto Ricans to the US, the policies of the governments of Puerto Rico and New York, and the ways Puerto Ricans were perceived by Americans for decades.
 

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Spirits in the Consulting Room

Eight Tales of Healing

Rutgers University Press

The book shows how trained transcultural mediators help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their experiences. Its groundbreaking insights can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages. 

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Reading Homer's Iliad

Bucknell University Press

Reading Homer’s "Iliad" is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s major themes, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes elaborate on myths Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume includes a general bibliography, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.

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Prestige Television

Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America

Rutgers University Press

Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.

 

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Prestige Television

Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America

Rutgers University Press

Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.

 

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Photo-Attractions

An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera

Rutgers University Press

A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.

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Opting Out

Women Messing with Marriage around the World

Rutgers University Press

Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
 

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Opting Out

Women Messing with Marriage around the World

Rutgers University Press

Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
 

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Intoxication

An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry

Rutgers University Press

Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, Intoxication offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Sébastien Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected takes place.

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Families We Need

Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China

Rutgers University Press

Families We Need is an ethnography of the temporary, yet transformative relationships between disenfranchised, older foster mothers and disabled, orphaned foster children in China, and the power of these seemingly marginal relationships to confront state power, disrupt intercountry adoption, and challenge our assumptions about the limits of foster kinship.

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Families of the Heart

Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Bucknell University Press

Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.

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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Edited by Jeremy Chow
Bucknell University Press

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection demonstrates how eighteenth-century studies can be taught through the lens of the environmental humanities. Activating topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism to interpret eighteenth-century literature and culture, each essay includes recommendations for innovative teaching and learning.

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Creole Soul

Zydeco Lives

By Burt Feintuch; Edited by Jeannie Banks Thomas; Photographs by Gary Samson
University Press of Mississippi

A vividly photographed journey through the world of zydeco music

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Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge

Building a Community Archive

Edited by Robert Irwin
University of Texas Press

A collection of digital stories from the Humanizing Deportation project that reveals a uniquely expert point of view of Mexican and Central American migrant experiences: those of the migrants themselves.

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Maximum Vantage

New Selected Columns

University Press of Florida
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Going Up the Country

Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating collaboration from two scholars working in the South during a crucial point in blues history

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Cornerstone at the Confluence

Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century

The University of Arizona Press

Forty million people rely on the Colorado River system’s flows. Commemorating the Colorado River Compact’s 2022 centennial, this volume explores the past, present, and future of the “Law of the River” and its cornerstone, amid a twenty-two-year megadrought and ongoing negotiations over new water management rules that must be completed by 2026.

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The Chouteaus

First Family of the Fur Trade

University of New Mexico Press

The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.

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