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Georg Brandes was a prominent writer, thinker, and speaker, who often examined intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's pieces that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples.

A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts - onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street - and deploy methods from diverse disciplines.

Mai Elizabeth Zetterling (1925-94) is among the most exceptional postwar female filmmakers. Critics have compared her work to that of Bergman, Bunuel, and Fellini, but Zetterling had her own distinct style. Mariah Larsson provides a lively and authoritative take on Zetterling's legacy and complicated position within film and women's history.

Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters.

In these poems, well-known spaces both reassure and imperil, and language both anchors and disorients. Molly Spencer's speakers navigate the landscape of human experience, building upon the cycles of a household throughout the seasons of the year.

Ganbatte is a Japanese word that means ""do your best"". In this vivid debut collection, Sarah Kortemeier wrestles with striving to meet this goal. Shifting between continents, languages, and remembered violences, she explores what it means to experience history as a tourist.

A collection of 59 essays aiming to demonstrate the thinking and development of Aldo Leopold, who propelled the US conservation movement from garden to government agencies. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of ecology while it was emerging as a new scientific discipline.

Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after 26 years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development.

Patrick Lally Michelson's intellectual history of asceticism in Russian Orthodox thought traces the development of competing arguments from the early nineteenth century to the early months of World War I. He demonstrates that this discourse was an imaginative interpretation of lived Orthodoxy, primarily meant to satisfy the ideological needs of Russian thinkers and Orthodox intellectuals.

The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias around 400 BCE. Written for a Greek readership, the Persica influenced the development of both historiographic and literary traditions in Greece. It also, contends Matt Waters, is an essential but often misunderstood source for the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Following World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. In Scattered, Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three siblings caught up in the conflict, during a turbulent period when compulsory resettlement was a common political tactic used against national minorities to create homogenous states. Born in the Lemko region of southeastern Poland, Petro, Melania, and Hania Pyrtej survived World War II only to be separated by political decisions over which they had no control. Petro relocated with his wife to Soviet Ukraine during the population exchange of 1944-46, while his sisters Melania and Hania were resettled to western Poland through Operation Vistula in 1947. As the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought resettlement, the Polish government meanwhile imprisoned suspected sympathizers within the Jaworzno concentration camp. Melania, Reilly's maternal grandmother, eventually found her way to the United States during Poland's period of liberalization in the 1960s. Drawing on oral interviews and archival research, Reilly tells a fascinating, true story that provides a bottom-up perspective and illustrates the impact of extraordinary historical events on the lives of ordinary people. Tracing the story to the present, she describes survivors' efforts to receive compensation for the destruction of their homes and communities.

By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the "Historia Augusta" is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. By analyzing it as literature rather than as history, David Rohrbacher offers a new and compelling explanation for this strange text that has long vexed scholars.

The culmination of years of fieldwork in Southern Malawi, "River of Blood" reconstructs the beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history to the present day, and reveals the fascinating intersections of an indigenous belief system with European Christianity.

This volume focuses on the impact of the crusades on Moslem and Christian populations in the Near East and on the societies developed by the Franks in Palestine, Syria, Cyprus and Greece.

Introducing a rich historical and religious context, Gautama V. Vajracharya offers an original study of the iconography of Indian miniature paintings, providing an extended analysis of 129 art works catalogued in this book.

This catalog contains 288 prints from the Edward Burr Van Vleck collection by Ukiyo-e master artist Utagawa Hiroshige and essay in Japanese by Yamaguchi Keisaburo.

This exhibition catalogue illustrates the ways in which 37 contemporary American artists approach case furniture, a traditional form that is being constantly defined and redefined. Provides a historical overview of the development of studio furniture and discussion of the themes of the exhibition.

Martha Glowacki, Mark Lorenzi, Natasha Nicholson, and Mary Alice Wimmer, are collectors who use objects from their own collections to inform their individual artwork. This catalogue documents an installation by each of the artists that is reminiscent of the 16th- and 17th-century Wunderkammer.

The ongoing fascination with the artistic and cultural expressions of American Indian people is documented historically, along with a close look at seven midwestern collections. The wide array of art encompassed is illustrated here, and includes pottery, weavings, basketry, beadworks and carvings.