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Based on extensive research in archives, local history societies, and family-history sources as well as conversations and correspondence, this book offers an intimate and unusual perspective on how ordinary people used stories to imagine the world they wished for, and what those stories reveal about their relationships with the world they actually had.

Offers an environmental, social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through the experiences of residents as well as visitors and covering a span of four hundred years. It narrates its history of resource scarcity and its attempts to deal with that scarcity offer useful lessons for anyone addressing similar issues around the globe.

A study of gay male fiction written between 1945 and 1995. It features close readings of works by White, Isherwood, Andrew Holleran, Gore Vidal, Larry Kramer, and many more.

Literary tourism has existed in the United States since at least the early nineteenth century, and now includes sites in almost every corner of the country. From Page to Place examines how Americans have taken up this form of tourism, offering an investigation of the places and practices of literary tourism from literary scholars, historians, tour guides, and collectors.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentieth century. This biography examines the philosophical and visionary depth of his world-renowned poetry and traces achievements spanning seventy years.

Martha Coffin Wright was a committed abolitionist and a founding figure in the women's rights activism of the 19th century in America. This is a biography of an individual who was known to her conservative neighbours as ""a very dangerous woman"".

An insightful argument about Sylvia Plath, feminism, and the marginalization of women readers

Tells the story of a plan put forth by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II to install an Allied military government in France in the aftermath of liberation, and of General Charles de Gaulle's efforts as self-appointed leader of the Free French Movement to thwart FDR's intentions.

Explores the world of American folk art collectors - people who saw the beauty and value of the furnishings, implements, and itinerant portraits that mainstream America had hitherto relegated to attics, barns, and dust bins. Although pioneer collectors sought out and preserved objects that are today regarded as icons, little has been known of their motivations, aesthetics, or display techniques.

This historic novel about blackface minstrels explores below the surface. Eric Lott, writing for African American Review, described it as ""A novel of ideas devoted to exploring the complex fate of black and white Americans caught, as ever, in a racial history they can neither surmount nor escape"".

Most people typically think of armed conflict in physical terms, involving guns and bombs, ships and planes, tanks and missiles. But today, because of mass communication, war and the effort to prevent it are increasingly dependent on non-physical factors--the capacity to persuade combatants and citizens to engage in violence or avoid it, and the packaging of the information on which decision making is based. This book explores the many ways that mass communication has revolutionized international relations, whether the aim is to make war effectively or to prevent it. Gary Messinger shows that over the last 150 years a succession of breakthroughs in the realm of media has reshaped the making of war and peace. Along with mass newspapers, magazines, books, motion pictures, radio, television, computer software, and telecommunication satellites comes an array of strategies for exploiting these media to control popular beliefs and emotions. Images of war now arrive in many forms and reach billions of people simultaneously. Political and military leaders must react to crowd impulses that sweep around the globe. Nation-states and nongovernmental groups, including terrorists, use mass communication to spread their portrayals of reality. Drawing on a wide range of media products, from books and articles to films and television programs, as well as his own research in the field of propaganda studies, Messinger offers a fresh and comprehensive overview. He skillfully charts the path that has led us to our current situation and suggests where we might go next.

In thirteen chapters devoted to artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England and the United States.

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.

Explores the depths of violence generated by white racism and the irony of the American association with violence as a behaviour of black people. Herbert Shapiro exposes the ways in which white supremacy operates within American institutions and the responses by black people in this powerful read.

Scrutinizes and contextualizes the original 19th century children's history books on which recent pedagogical republications are based. The author demonstrates that far from being non-ideological, these works were rooted in intense contemporary debates over changing conceptions of childhood, focusing on different pedagogical strategies and philosophies of history.

Maps the rise and demise of the political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Explores how riders and writers imagined alternative ways that working-class people could use mobility to create powerful dissenting voices outside of fixed hierarchal political organizations.

Centers on the fictional New England village of Livingston, where the young Margaret Hart strives to escape the poverty and vice of her surroundings by learning from a mysterious teacher, the 'Master', and by entwining herself with the powers of nature. This work helps readers to understand the literary culture of mid-nineteenth-century America.

Includes ten stories that examine small world disruptions - mistimed infatuations, devastating diagnoses, the realizations inherent in loss. The characters look up from what they assumed were ordinary lives amazed to discover where they find themselves.

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.

Dissatisfied with traditional diplomatic and military interpretations, historians have been investigating the role that political culture played in shaping global conflicts. This text illuminates the political and cultural assumptions underlying US policies from World War II to the mid-1960s.

By 1982 the Nuclear Freeze campaign had become the largest peace movement in American history. Recently declassified White House memoranda reveal a concerted campaign by the Reagan administration to defeat activists' efforts. In this book, William M. Knoblauch examines these new sources to demonstrate how cultural activism ultimately influenced the administration's stance on the arms race.

The East Indies, editor Beekman notes, could justly be called "Holland's Atlantis" - Edenic, pure, terrifying, nowhere. And while these Dutch stories about the Indies rarely specify their locality or geography, they stay all the more beautiful for their abstract loneliness. The narrator of all the tales seems to be a sort of commercial manager (Dutch) - first put down on an Indonesian island (in "Green"), then left there to grow into his obsession with the deep woods just to the north of the beach he lives on. Soon enough he's trekking toward them: "Straight trunks, green light, always the same, and it must be very ancient. It is Time, I say laughing. Ancient, green, and always the same." (This making of space into time is Alberts' most haunting allegorical tool.) Similarly, in other stories, the few characters here are dwarfed by the sea and light and forests and mountains, with humanity's small doings taking devil-may-care turns: soldiers and shipwrecks become local potentates; enterprises begin and then simply peter out; expeditions go around in circles. Moreover, casual, pared sentences (well offered by translator Koning) give these poetic stories a languorous song that prompts a spell - and Alberts is so appealing and lucent a writer that translations of his novels would certainly be welcome. (Kirkus Reviews)

With an unflinching, unsentimental eye and a soupçon of black humor, Fonseca chronicles the foibles, manias, and obsessions of the people of Brazil's metropolises

A selection of writings, published between 1911 and 1998, on the subject of blues music. There are contributions by folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary artists, musicians, critics and aficionados, including Richard Alan Waterman, Alan Lomax and James Baldwin.

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.