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An examination of the interchange between popular and learned cultures, and the practices of reading and writing. The essays reflect Hall's belief that the better the production and consumption of books is understood, the closer readers can come to a social history of culture.

This work presents the memoirs of Gordon Heath (1918-1991), an actor whose career spanned five decades on the stages of New York, London and Paris. He achieved prominence in 1945 for his role in Broadway's ""Deep are the Roots"", an exploration of American race-relations at the end of World War II.

These 15 essays analyse American and European diaries written by women since the 19th century. The authors use various critical methodologies to examine the diary as text, as a form of women's self-inscription, and as a window to the diarists' historical and contemporary lives.

A firsthand account of the political war on science and a primer on climate change that addresses the real questions at stake

Presents Emily Dickinson as one of America's great thinkers. This book weaves together many strands in Dickinson's intellectual culture - philosophy, lexicography, religion, experimental science, the female Bildungsroman - and shows how she developed a lyricized and conversational hermeneutics suited to rethinking the discourses of her time.

A contribution to the study necessary to understand the place of this small but distinct group of artefacts in the context of the 19th century. The book provides a set of photographs and measured drawings of Shaker furniture for both study and reproduction.

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1888-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. This is the first volume of three and incorporates correspondence from 1877 to 1934.

Traces the history of Doo-Wop from its origins in 19th century barbershop quartets through its emergence in the postwar era to its nostalgic adulthood from the mid-1960s. It is based on interviews Runowicz has conducted over the last twenty-two years whil

A study of African American detective fiction which includes writers such as J.E. Bruce, Rudolph Fisher, Chester Himes, Ishmael Reed and Clarence Major. Themes such as altered detective personas, double-consciousness detection, black vernaculars and hoodoo are examined in the text.

Readers cannot fail to be struck - and possibly sometimes amused - by the patience and ingenuity shown in the field studies undertaken by Dr Niko Tinbergen and his fellow naturalists - and which are now passed on for the benefit and interest of his readers.

During the interwar period in 20th century America, innovative forms of music and dance helped a newly urbanized population cope with the increased mechanization of modern life. This work argues that it was African American culture that ultimately provided the means of this social adaptation.

This text tells the story of Roxana Walbridge Watts (1802-1862), a farm wife in Peacham, Vermont and the 12 children she raised. Using a variety of primary sources - letters, diaries and photographs - these personal histories describe a broad range of experiences.

This work interweaves about 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of America's finest poets. Among the interviewees are John Ashbery, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Clement Greenberg, Thom Gunn, John Hollander, and Mary McCarthy.

This bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national identity. The poems testify to the centrality of war in Vietnamese history and experience over the past 50 years, beginning with Ho Chi Minh in the 1940s.

Provides an informal social history of immigrant mobility, prostitution, Jewish life in New York, police dishonesty, the ""white slavery"" scare of the early twentieth century, and political corruption. This book brings women's lives and problems to the forefront.

Drawing on a range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, this work shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam ""by other means"" for another twenty-five years.

In this book Robert Paul Wolff dispels much of the mystery surrounding Karl Marx's Capital by providing literary-philosophica analysis of the text and of Marx's intentions. The book solves lasting puzzles about "Capital, such as why it lacks proper scientific sobriety and why it speaks on many levels."

Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. It addresses the legacy of Eisenstein's work in print culture studies.

Contains essays by Foucault-scholars and Foucault himself. It concentrates on Foucault's later works, where there is a shift of focus from the power/knowledge axis to the axis of ethics. This collection of should be of interest to anyone who are interested in Foucault's work on ethics and subjectivity.

The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years; however, legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.

Presenting seven works from the Elizabethan age including Dekker's Lantern and Candle-light and Rid's Art of Juggling, this book discusses these and other Elizabethan ""protonovels"" and assesses their influence on writers such as Shakespeare.

This work documents the different features and styles of American Windsor furniture, with narrative descriptions and photographs of the 198 pieces under discussion. It also provides 34 drawings (and lists of measured parts) which can be used as blue-prints for creating Windsor reproductions.

A novel written in 1900 and set in the Dutch East Indies. It concerns a colonial official who is undone by his wilful application of reason to a culture that is steeped in the mystical and irrational. This edition contains an introduction and notes.

Nearly 1.5 million Irish women, men and children sailed to America to escape the Great Famine, triggered by successive years of potato blight. This volume commemorates these epochal events and sheds new light on both the consequences of the famine and the experience of the Irish in America.

In this text, 12 essays explore how issues of power figure in the process and products of translation.