Under this new ‘science of work’ that emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939 fatigue was seen as the ultimate... Læs mere
Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American... Læs mere
Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the... Læs mere
Centering Indigenous writers, Book Anatomy argues that the reprints, editions, and paratextual elements of Indigenous books... Læs mere
Examining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America’s leading writers.
Employing the methods of social history, such as the use of digital history techniques and often-ignored sources like census records, Eric Nystrom and R.A.R. Edwards recover the lived experiences of everyday deaf people in late nineteenth century America.
Details how American universities became a battleground for identity politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.... Læs mere
Identifying the previously unrecognised connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades.
Crafted with lines from her late father’s letters, Jennifer Tseng’s Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken loss - that of his native geography, family, traditions, language - underlies every word.
Expanding the climate and health equity discussions to populations all over the globe, contributors in this... Læs mere
A loose narrative in three sections, these poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their separation - both physical and emotional - as adults.
Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation, the factory, and the supermarket through the life of... Læs mere