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A literary, social and ethical history of book censorship in the USA. The first edition documented censorship from the 1870s to the 1930s. This second edition includes two new chapters that carry this history forward to the beginning of the 21st century.

Using the diaries (some kept only briefly, others through an entire lifetime) of girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999, this work offers an insight into the self-images of girls and women and the dynamics of families through recent history.

Born on a Kentucky plantation in 1815, Bibb first attempted to escape from bondage at the age of ten. He was recaptured and escaped several more times before he eventually settled in Detroit and joined the antislavery movement as a lecturer. This autobiography was first published in 1849.

In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France. From the King's bounty to the beggar's alms, from the lavish feasting and display of civic dignitaries to the humble tokens exchanged by peasant bride and groom, the giving and receiving of gifts - then, as now - held tremendous significance.

Relations between 19th- and 20th-century European culture, German history and Jewish experiences produced some of the West's most powerful and enduring intellectual creations - and some of its darkest genocidal moments. This collection of essays explores the flashpoints of this vexed relationship.

Crossing the boundaries between science and the humanities, the author explores the volumes of discourse involved in the construction of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to discover the role rhetoric plays in the formulation and expression of scientific ideas.

This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, as told to Marie Hall Ets, who was a friend of Rosa. She tells of her life in a village, her marriage at 16, her unwilling migration to join her husband in Missouri, the unassisted birth of her child, and her life as an independent woman living in Chicago.

From the history of gay and lesbian studies to the emergence of video bars, from an interview with Cherrie Moraga to a photo record of 1950s gay Los Angeles these essays tackle the past, present and future of gay sexuality from all directions.

Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's Chiaroscuro explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political.

The 12 essays in this collection explore the concept of forgiveness in interpersonal relationships, family relationships, the individual and society relationship and international relations through the eyes of a psychologist, police-chief-turned-minister, law professor, sociologist and others.

This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.

This text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability. Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies, or those of loved ones, from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.

The author places Huckleberry Finn in the context of long standing American debate about race and culture. He points out that this quintessentially American novel, assigned to many schools as an important weapon against racism, yet including the word ""nigger"", arouses controversy.

Since its first publication in 1984, ""Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape"" has continued to be influential beyond the field of geography. It provoked lively debate amongst historians, social theorists, landscape architects and those interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.

Exploring the riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska in a canoe, Hildebrand's personal account of river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives and cranky old-timers provides a record of a journey as much inward as it is outward.

Mixing film history with social history, ""Reel Patriotism"" examines the role played by the American film industry during World War I and the effects of the industry's pragmatic patriotism after the war. It looks at such films as ""Joan the Woman"" and ""Wings"" and at the stars of the time.

This collection of essays reveals the thoughts of a Native American feminist intellectual. A poet and literary scholar, Elizabeth Cook-Lyyn grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people.

Women's labour has long been the linchpin of male status and power throughout Africa. This work interprets the intricate relations of gender to state-building in Africa by looking historically at control over production and reproduction from the 19th century to the 1990s.

This work presents a sweeping history of the forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American poetry canon.

This new edition analyses Leopold's essay, which explores issues of predation by studying the interrelationships between deer, wolves and forests. Flader shows how Leopold's approach to wildlife evolved from, amongst others, his experiences restoring the deer population in the USA.

This text explores taboos against eating certain kinds of flesh from a historical and cultural perspective. New research on the use and avoidance of flesh foods, from antiquity to the present day, is integrated in this edition.

The first winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, this collection reminds readers that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as those things the poet will not let go unspoken in the world. The author's compassionate witness is born out of immersion in bittersweet particulars.

The writers featured in this volume have all recorded their encounters with nature. McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behaviour, and to their rejection of modern alienation and spiritual confusion.

The essays in this collection discuss topics such as: the intricate rules of cockfighting; the ethics of pitting two equally-matched roosters in a match to the death; the emotional involvement of cockfighters and fans; and the sexual implications of the male-dominated ritual.

Challenges the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as alienated and dominated by a desire to improve their status. This text argues that instead, social control by the Spanish rested on patron-client networks.

The author's thesis declares that the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. She explores the complex way in which African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labour, and offers comparative studies of agrarian change in four sub-Saharan areas.

Studies one scientific essay - ""The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme"", by evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin - as an example, to demonstrate and test new analytical approaches to scientific rhetoric.

This work shows how the ideal of practical reason can reconcile academia's research aims with public expectations for universities - the preparation of citizens, the training of professionals and the communication of a cultural inheritance.

In ""Dolor y Alegria"", 15 mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers in the Mexican City of Cuernavaca speak about the dramatic effects that urbanisation and rapid social change have had on their lives. Sarah LeVine combines these autobiographical vignettes with ethnographical material.

A survey of radical perspectives on the modern state. By focusing on Marxist theory and its variations, particularly as applied to advanced industrial societies and contemporary welfare states, Clyde W. Barrow provides an extensive and thorough treatment of the topic.