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Explores the intertwined histories of print and protest in the United States from Reconstruction to the 2000s. Ten essays look at how protestors of all political and religious persuasions, as well as aesthetic and ethical temperaments, have used the printed page to wage battles over free speech; test racial, class, sexual, and even culinary boundaries; and to alter the moral landscape in American life.

When Johnquell, an African American teen, suffers a serious accident in the home of his white neighbour, Mrs. Czernicki, his community must find ways to bridge divisions between black and white, gay and straight, old and young. Set in one of the US's most highly segregated cities, Meet Me Halfway tells stories of connections in a community with a tumultuous and divided past.

In 1914, Blaise Diagne was elected as Senegal's first black African representative to the National Assembly in France. Education as Politics reinterprets the origins and significance of this momentous election, showing how colonial schools had helped reshape African power and politics during the preceding decades and how they prepared the way for Diagne's victory.

Presenting the history of United Artists, this title examines the turnaround of the company in the hands of Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin in the 1950s, when United Artists devised a successful strategy based on the financing and distribution of independent production that transformed the company into an industry leader.

Challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the diversity of collaborations from the early modern to the post-modern period. This work explores some of the best-known literary partnerships - from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - and also includes lesser-known collaborators.

According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. This volume examines the varied sources and elaborations of the legend. It deals with historical cases and surveys of blood libel in different locales, as well as literary renditions of the legend.

These letters follow Newton as he travelled more than 5000 miles as a soldier in the American Civil War.

Adventure, suspense, above all violence--these filled the lives of the characters brightening the pulp magazines. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, these magazines of popular fiction offered hard-paced entertainment and high wonder. In "Violent Lives" Robert Sampson calls up a vivid selection of adventurers, spies, and warriors.

This work describes and analyses at length the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. It considers the work of Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, James Merrill and Adrienne Rich.

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.

This is a sequel to the author's Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties. This account covers from when Robert Peters leaves the farm and is drafted into the Army during World War II. It is in Paris where he hears Marlene Dietrich sing Lili Marlene.

Explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the 18th/19th centuries (by Lavater, Marivaux, Balzac, Gautier, Zola), as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them. This science ""reads"" the body as an index to spiritual and intellectual qualities,

Talks about Errol Flynn's performance.

Presents the powerful women's noir film in which Joan Crawford forged a new and successful screen image, winning her an Academy Award for best actress.

These nine essays examine "how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television, all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. Offering multiple perspectives, including print culture history, literary studies, labour history, gender history, the history of race, and the history of childhood and adolescence, this is a pioneering investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.

Few techniques are as effective at generating interest in science as dramatic demonstrations. This fully illustrated sourcebook describes eighty-five physics demonstrations suitable for performance both inside and outside classrooms. These demonstrations will fascinate and amaze while teaching the wonders and practical science of physics.

In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno's powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of alleged communists over the next year, Suharto remade the events of October 1, 1965 into the central event of modern Indonesian history and the cornerstone of his thirty-two-year dictatorship.Despite its importance as a trigger for one of the twentieth century's worst cases of mass violence, the September 30th Movement has remained shrouded in uncertainty. Who actually masterminded it? What did they hope to achieve? Why did they fail so miserably? And what was the movement's connection to international Cold War politics? In Pretext for Mass Murder, John Roosa draws on a wealth of new primary source material to suggest a solution to the mystery behind the movement and the enabling myth of Suharto's repressive regime. His book is a remarkable feat of historical investigation.

"Show and Tell" is a varied, complex collection of poems, serious and wise, wry and often profound. Jim Daniels' work has become both more experimentally dramatic and more poetically sure of itself.

This collection of poems features the presence of mystics and visionaries: Mohammed, Buddha, St Paul, Augustine, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Blake, Milton, and Rilke.

Place names tell us as much about how people lived as do relics dug from the ground. They are historical records of the location and migration of people, plants, and animals. Virgil Vogel's research into Native American influence on place names has resulted in an account that illuminates the history and culture of Wisconsin Indians.

Archaeologists identify the Menomini as descendants of the Middle Woodland Indians, who flourished in the area for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. According to Menomini legend, their people emerged from the ground near the mouth of the Menominee River. It was along that river that Sieur Jean Nicolet first encountered the Menomini in 1634. The Menomini, a peaceful people, lived by farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering wild rice. Perhaps because of their peaceful nature their name was not generally found in the white military annals, and they were largely unknown until 1892, when Walter James Hoffman published a detailed ethnographic account of them. Felix Keesing's classic 1939 work on the Menomini is one of the most detailed, authoritative, and useful accounts of their history and culture. It superseded Hoffman's earlier work because of Keesing's modern methods of research. This work was among the first monographs on an American Indian people to employ a model of acculturation, and it is also an excellent early example of what is now called ethnohistory. It served as a model of anthropological research for decades after its publication. Keesing's work, reprinted in this new Wisconsin edition, will continue to serve as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader, a book respected by both anthropologists and historians, and by the Menomini themselves. It is still the most important study of Menomini life up until 1939.

The Story of My boyhood and Youth is a series of essays on the three worlds of the young John Muir: his first eleven years in an old town in Scotland, the years 1849-1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness, during the time the area was being settled, and four years at the University of Wisconsin.

As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Orisa. This book explores the emergence of Orisa devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the history of the human religious quest.

Robert Louis Stevenson was the author of ""Treasure Island"". This work looks, with varied critical approaches, at his literary production and unites to confer scholarly legitimacy on this writer. It says that Stevenson reinvented the ""personal essay"" and the ""walking tour essay,"" in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance.

This volume is designed to help the intermediate-level learner of Japanese build a technical vocabulary, reinforce understanding of frequently used grammatical patterns, improve reading comprehension and practise translating technical passages.

This text shows how the shamans, during their night-long performances, create the worlds of words in which shamans exist. It analyzes texts that the shamans use to diagnose and treat afflictions that trouble their clients.