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Documents the impact of Spanish colonial institutions of labour on identity and social cohesion in Peru. Through archaeological and historical lines of evidence, Di Hu examines the long-term social conditions that enabled the large-scale rebellions in the late Spanish colonial period in Peru.

Provides an insider's perspective on the field of cardiovascular medicine told through vignettes and insights drawn from Gregory Chapman's three decades of experience. In twenty-six bite-sized chapters, Chapman provides an overview of cardiovascular diseases and treatments, illuminating the art and science of medical practice.

In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is a greatly revised and expanded version of Fitts's history of the city, filled with a wealth of new, never-before-published illustrations.

"Philip Whalen (1923-2002) is a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry. Whalen authored twenty collections of verse, more than twenty broadsides, two novels, a huge assemblage of autobiographical literary journals, nine or ten experimental prose works, and dozens of critical essays, lectures, commentaries, introductions, prefaces, and interviews. But he came to regard his literary journals as his most important prose legacy. A professed Buddhist for most of his adult life, Whalen was ordained a Zen Buddhist monk in 1972 in what is arguably still the most influential Zen Buddhist training temple complex in North America. In some ways Whalen begs a comparison with Thomas Merton, the twentieth century's most significant Christian monk-poet. But where Merton contained himself within the conservative guidelines of Trappist-Christian orthodoxy, Whalen was a closeted homosexual (or bisexual) who inscribed an insider's account of his monastic community with an acid tongue and a keen sense of humor. His pen spared no one in the religious hierarchy he trained under. Whalen's literary work represents a significant turn in American letters, as he and his closest colleagues immersed themselves in East Asian literature and religion, reinvigorating strikingly new linguistic and aesthetic paths for North American writers and artists. However, until now Whalen's forty-plus years of journals-sixty small eight-by-six-inch notebooks-have been largely inaccessible, archived in the rare book and manuscript library at the University of California, Berkeley, undigitized and unavailable online. Thus, the publication of a critical scholarly edition of Whalen's journals and notebooks constitutes an important literary event and an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, poets, and lay readers who follow twentieth-century North American poetry. In his complex and idiosyncratic poetics, Whalen adopts a unique mind-and-language-centered approach to the creation of a poem. Some of his finest works are "live action" scenes where he fuses moments of bald mental perception with the linguistic intricacies of his inner consciousness (i.e., the words, phrases, and observations that his mind forms, or that other people spill into his mind in the same block of time). The significance of Whalen's journals is manifold, Brian Unger argues, and goes beyond their mere availability. Unger argues that of all the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poets of the postwar period, Whalen's roots in modernism are among the strongest. He was a voracious reader, as his journals show, and a keen student of earlier literatures. Furthermore, the journals conclusively overturn many misleading arguments about Whalen's personal life as related in the 2015 Whalen biography Crowded by Beauty by David Schneider. The publication of the journals would provide for the first time, and in Whalen's own words, an objective and self-substantiated account of his life with biographical information that has never before been generally available. The Whalen journals make clear as never before the primary psychological forces driving his personal life, his interior life as a poet and a religious monk, and they shed important light on the intriguing complexity of his philosophical and phenomenological poetics"--

Identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Patricia Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region's peoples.

Offers a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era. New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee offers an invaluable record of that pivotal time for professional, student, and amateur archaeologists.

A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman. Impact Zone documents Marine First Lieutenant James S. Brown's intense battle experiences, including those at Khe Sanh and Con Thien, throughout his thirteen months of service on the DMZ during 1967-68.

Chilean soldiers appear in most historical accounts as decontextualized figures or simply as a single man: Augusto Pinochet. John Bawden provides new insights into the era and posits that Pinochet and his men were responsible for two major transformations in Chile's constitution as well as the political and economic effects that followed.

The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the US. Kennesaw: Natural History of a Southern Mountain provides a comprehensive exploration of the entire park punctuated with humour, colourful anecdotes, and striking photographs of the landscape.

Offers a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions - and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity - compete for dominance.

A biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society. John Beecher (1904-1980) never had the public prominence of his famous ancestors, but as a poet, professor, sociologist, New Deal administrator, journalist, and civil rights activist, he spent his life fighting for the voiceless and oppressed with a distinct moral sensibility.

An expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state's distinctive political machinery.

Explores the archaeology of African American life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. These sites highlight the potential for historical archaeology to illuminate the often overlooked contributions and experiences of the region's free and enslaved African American settlers.

Offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt's Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of the contemporary executive-focused civil service.

Focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward fish.

Explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Gerald L. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words.

Offers the hypnotic fictional biography of Nathan Cohen, who is deported from the United States in 1912 under the Alien Act and who spends the first years of World War I on the passenger ship Vasari, shuttled between the United States and Argentina.

A daring collection of tales, darkly humorous, that eerily channels the surreal and sinister mood of the times. Preoccupied with the fault lines between life and death, and veering often into horror, Angela Buck brings a raw energy and witty sobriety to these accounts of human life and connection.

Investigates the ground-breaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I. Allison Finkelstein argues that American women activists considered their own community service and veteran advocacy to be forms of commemoration just as significant and effective as more traditional forms of commemoration.

Explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States. Adopting the myth of Orpheus as its framework, Robert Zamsky argues that works by Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, John Taggart, Tracie Morris, and Nathaniel Mackey restage ancient debates over the relationship between poetry and music.

Addresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. Raja Swamy offers an ethnographically rich account of post-disaster reconstruction, its contested aims, and the mixed outcomes of state policy, humanitarian aid, and local resistance.

Presents the culmination of the research of preeminent rock art scholar Edward J. Lenik. Here, he profiles more than 64 examples of rock art in varied locations from Nova Scotia to Maryland. Chapters are organised geographically and lead the reader through coastal sites, rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, and upland sites.

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by British and American visitors. These accounts were widely read and reviewed when they first appeared but have largely been ignored by scholars.

Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.

In this touching memoir, Anita Faye Garner re-creates her remarkable upbringing. The Glory Road carries readers back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.

First published in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. This text revisits and builds on what has been learned in the years since the original volume.

Offers an uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors. In 2013 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters exchanged between her late grandparents. What is unusual about their story is that Ben Kesler was not writing from a theater of war. Instead, as a conscientious objector.

Containing more than 130 paintings and engravings, Painted Bluff is perhaps the most elaborate prehistoric pictograph site east of the Mississippi River. This volume provides the first complete description and interpretation of one of the most important archaeological sites in eastern North America.

Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials. This is the first book-length study of its kind to highlight the increasing commodification of Caribbean Precolumbian heritage.