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Brings to life Gertrude Stein's surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a dread of anti-Semitism. Ery Shin argues that Stein's later works engage with storytelling and life-writing in startling ways - most emphatically and poignantly through the surrealist lens.

Pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political, diplomatic, and philanthropic networks that enabled the establishment of new Jewish communities in Palestine and the United States.

Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, this book considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building. Carla Guerron Montero analyses the ways in which tourism becomes a vehicle for the development of specific kinds of institutional multiculturalism and nation-building projects.

Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.

Alabama's military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause. In his new study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben Severance argues that Alabama's electoral and political attitudes were, in their own way, just as unified in their support for the cause of southern independence.

Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. The book's approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term "economic".

In a clear-eyed and eloquent voice, Vic Sizemore grapples movingly with his own bewilderment and chagrin as he struggles to reconcile the essential philosophical and moral decay that he believes many evangelicals have come to embrace.

Makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary'sex panics' are undergirded by queerphobia, even when the panics in question don't appear to have much to do with queerness. Ian Barnard presents six case studies that treat a wide range of sex panic rhetorics to demonstrate his argument.

Shows how the social attitudes of women were shaped during the Progressive era. By studying primary documents, Carol Crawford Holcomb uncovers ample evidence that WMU leaders, aware of the social gospel and sympathetic to social reform, appropriated the tools of social work and social service to carry out their missionary work.

Investigates the fin de siecle search for truth and meaning in a world that had been radically transformed. John S. Haller Jr. examines the moral and philosophical journeys of nine European and American intellectuals who sought deeper understanding amid such paradigmatic upheaval.

Examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale.

Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention. The explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the "Palestine question" whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I.

Known to today's biologists primarily as the "Michx", at the end of more than 700 plant names, Andre Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, this book is the first complete English edition of Michaux's American journals.

Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange.

A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona. Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.

Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape

Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War

Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces

Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction

Offers an innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys. Sissy! The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture expands on recent cultural criticism that focuses on the ways men and boys deemed to be feminine have been - and continue to be - condemned for their personalities and behaviour.

Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature - Romanticism and Realism - have come to be understood and defined. Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather traces the complex and unexplored relationship between American realism and the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Maxwell's work provides the first complete, deeply researched biography of Pelham, perhaps Alabama's most notable Civil War figure, and explains his enduring attraction.

Translation from French of an essay on the nature and character of human laughter

A classic political philosophy text, available again

The Japanese annexed the archipelago of Palau in 1914. The airbase built on Peleliu Island became a target for attack by the US in World War II. This book offers an ethnographic study of how Palau and Peleliu were transformed by warring powers and explores how their conflict is remembered differently by the three peoples who shared the experience.

An account that will long stand as the definitive treatment. In this work, Charles A. Misulia, a lifelong student of the Civil War and expert on the Battle of Columbus, provides a comprehensive study of the Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, conflict.

A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre. Theatre is inescapably about bodies. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 explore a broad range of issues related to embodiment.

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution. R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a tumultuous impact on a society's functioning.