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Explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers the ways in which the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct narrative models of social conciliation.

Dwells on the physical and cultural landscapes of the Texarkana border region, an area of stark natural beauty and even starker manifestations of its human habitation: oil derricks and pump jacks, logging trucks, chicken houses, come-to-Jesus billboards, and greasy catfish joints.

Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances , especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since.

Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.

Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy.

Includes poems that range from a four-line satire of office inspirational posters to a lengthy meditation on the silence of God.

Key to the successful teaching and learning of history is its personalization. In presenting documents that help Ohio's rich history come alive in the minds of its readers, this book has purposely sought to provide eyewitness, first-person narratives that will make the reader want to turn the page and keep on reading.

Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of four outstanding film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda of Hamlet. Indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these directors rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

This volume explores the twin issues of how slavery made life possible in America's capital city, with black slaves serving the legislators, bureaucrats and military leaders, and how lawmakers in the District regulated slavery in the nation.

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Examines the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries and focuses on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic real

Offers a unique comparison of the two main African cinema modes: art cinema of contemporary Europe supported by the French film industry; and "Nollywood", mass-marketed films originating in southern Nigeria which now dominate African cinema.

Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under.

Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under.

An intellectual history of the resistance movement in South Africa between 1968 and 1977, this book follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. The author argues that only by understanding how ideas a

Ralph J Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key US diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. This book examines the totality of Bunche's unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence.

In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S.

In 1846, two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St Louis, Missouri. It is the first true civil rights case decided by the US Supreme Court. This title offers a collection of essays that revisits the history of the case and its aftermath in American life and law.

Nineteenth century geography primers shaped the worldview of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women these primers employed rhetorical tropes in order to plot other cultures alon

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry.

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions. This book investigates these constructions by situating Arnold's poetry in a number of contexts that partially shaped it.

Offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas' thought. This book highlights the relevance of the phenomenological tradition to contemporary ethical and political thought while also making a contribution to Levinas scholarship.

For a decade straddling the turn of the twentieth century, Mark Hanna was one of the most famous men in America. This book studies Hanna's career in presidential politics. It demonstrates the flaws inherent in the way the news media cover politics.

Historians of colonial Africa have regarded the decade of Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. This book challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive responses of Northern Nigerian people to the British colonial mismanagement of Great Depression.

Transports readers back to the 1840s when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form. This book analyzes the role of the dance master, who created and disseminated the manners and moves expected of fashionable society.

During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances.

The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa's thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view.