The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a... Læs mere
This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural... Læs mere
In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past.
Writing with an Accent celebrates and explores a group of authors who characteristically mix the joy and pain of Italian American life to paint a multifaceted picture of Italian American women and their complex place in U.S. culture.
Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin,... Læs mere
Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity?
This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth... Læs mere
The first anthology on female evangelists and their history in the United States, from the 1700s to the present.
This is the first book on the Arab Shi'a community, a group whose identity and relations to the rest of the Middle East cut to the heart of politics and society in the Arab and Muslim world.
Through focused and sustained study of this writer and his best-selling book, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues pertinent to both general readers and... Læs mere
This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape.
In a marked departure from the frequent and bloody confrontations that have characterized the relationship between the state... Læs mere