Twenty-three autobiographical articles by noted African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, comprising a late-life memoir of his childhood in Reconstruction-era Florida
Tenahaha and the Wari State presents new findings and interpretations that challenge existing theories of Wari state dominance during the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) in Peru.
"Tender Is the Night" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities is a major examination of Fitzgerald's 1934 masterpiece as the clearest exemplar of Fitzgerald's sentimentalism, a mode that shaped his distinctive blend of romance and realism throughout his career.
In a clear-eyed and eloquent voice, Vic Sizemore grapples movingly with his own bewilderment and chagrin as he struggles to reconcile the essential philosophical and moral decay that he believes many evangelicals have come to embrace.
Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. The book’s approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term "economic".
Examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society.
Presents the latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America. Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, this is a must-have volume for today's archaeologist.
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans. This volume provides a basis for interpreting the symbolism of more than eighty portable stone artifacts found in the region.
Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba... Læs mere
Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.
The term glocalization describes how the global circulation of products and ideas requires accommodations to local conditions,... Læs mere
In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis English analyses why Perry county, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighbouring counties.