Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our vision of America.
In their literary autobiographies, modernists Vita Sackville-West,... Læs mere
There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide -... Læs mere
The Bush-Clinton families' hold on the American presidency is a danger to the presidency itself and to American democracy. This book will highlight the problems and the consequences of combining the most powerful political office in the world with family legacies.
Presenting a history of the YMCA, this work details its role on American campuses. It explores how this organization worked to strengthen the... Læs mere
Offers a three-country macroeconomic model that provides researchers with a framework for analyzing the international economic and ecological effects of alternative public policies - monetary, fiscal, and environmental.
The first study to juxtapose medieval effigy tombs and personal seals, the two forms of cultural patronage through which royal women crafted a visual imagery for queenship in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century France.
As Green notes, its bilateral relationship with the United States is at the heart of Japan's foreign policy initiatives, and Japan therefore conducts foreign policy with one eye carefully on Washington.
"Figuring Animals" is a collection of fifteen essays concerning the representation of animals in literature, the visual arts, philosophy, and cultural practice.
The articles in this volume, by scholars all pursuing careers in the United States, concern the theoretical approaches and methods of early medieval studies.
This book brings together significant writings on Christianity and patriotism for a post-September 11th world. This is an exceptional collection of writings for students and universities to use as a source for guiding and informing discussion about Christianity and patriotism.
Combining phenomenological ideals with rigorous close reading and antithetical criticism, this study assesses the career evolution of the Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate, while providing a methodology for analyzing other poetic careers.