Features works written on the evening of September 11, 2001, and in response to the war in Iraq.
Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their... Læs mere
Since Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of realism and... Læs mere
A survey of the entire ecological history of life on land--from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture.
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current... Læs mere
Explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive... Læs mere
Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the... Læs mere
Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, politics and theory of sexuality. With this text, Steven Angelides explores the reasons why and invites us to rethink our preconceptions about sexual identity.
This text presents Nels Anderson's ethnographic work of a world of homeless men - a study conducted on Madison street in Chicago - and includes Anderson's later work on the juvenile and the tramp, the unattached migrant, and the family.