In Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist, preeminent biographer David Chanoff tells Benezet’s story—who he was, what he did, how he did it,... Læs mere
Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this novel follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels... Læs mere
Siwar Masannat follows up her prize-winning debut with poems that wrestle with intimacy and distance. “cue"’s intertextual experiments and lyric poems map environmental relations and pose questions about privacy and visibility, love and family, gender, and ecological agency.
In James Madison's Constitution, Kasper and Schweber have assembled a roster of ten prominent contributors to excavate Madison’s... Læs mere
This anthology critically evaluates archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material.
Grounded in ethnographic research over five years in Palestinian villages near Bethlehem, Olive Growing in Palestine follows the lives of four families and fifty other individuals involved with olive growing as a form of resistance.
In Rebecca Lang's Pimento Cheese, the storied food writer and ninth-generation Southerner gives readers a taste of the famed spread's history and versatility. The... Læs mere
Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865.
Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule.
In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-first-century culinary and cultural powerhouse?