Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology
Julia Roberts;Kathleen Sheppard;Ulf R. Hansson;Jonathan R. Trigg;Julia Robe...
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Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology
2020
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of researchers rather than the isolated work of so-called ‘instrumental'actors. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work and the dynamic creative processes she participates in, this volume critically examines the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation of knowledge about the past. Engaging with theoretical approaches such as the sociology and geographies of knowledge and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and using examples taken from different archaeologies in Europe and North America from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century, the book caters to a wide readership, ranging from students of archaeology, anthropology, classics and science studies to the general reader.
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IKUWA6. Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress for Underwater Archaeology : 28 November–2 December 2016, Western Australian Maritime Museum Fremantle, Western Australia
Jennifer A. Rodrigues;Arianna Traviglia;Jennifer A. Rodrigues;Arianna Travi...
Celebrating the theme ‘Shared heritage', IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Un...
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IKUWA6. Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress for Underwater Archaeology : 28 November–2 December 2016, Western Australian Maritime Museum Fremantle, Western Australia
2020
Celebrating the theme ‘Shared heritage', IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology), was the first such major conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific region, and the first IKUWA meeting hosted outside Europe since the organisation's inception in Germany in the 1990s. A primary objective of holding IKUWA6 in Australia was to give greater voice to practitioners and emerging researchers across the Asia and Pacific regions who are often not well represented in northern hemisphere scientific gatherings of this scale; and, to focus on the areas of overlap in our mutual heritage, techniques and technology. Drawing together peer-reviewed presentations by delegates from across the world who converged in Fremantle in 2016 to participate, this volume covers a stimulating diversity of themes and niche topics of value to maritime archaeology practitioners, researchers, students , historians and museum professionals across the world.
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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The Fin-de-Siècle World
Michael Saler;Michael Saler
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid pi...
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The Fin-de-Siècle World
2015
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the'New Liberalism', and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.
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The Imagery of Interior Spaces
Dominique Bauer;Michael J. Kelly;Dominique Bauer;Michael J. Kelly
On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” ...
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The Imagery of Interior Spaces
2019
On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth — reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.
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Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought
John Aloisi;John Aloisi
At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus Hopkins Strong worked to bring modernist...
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Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought
2021
At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus Hopkins Strong worked to bring modernists and traditional Christians together but found the task more difficult than many imagined. In the wake of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859, Christianity, or at least many people's understanding of Christianity, was evolving. The rising popularity of Darwinism combined with the pervasive influence of German idealism began forcing many professing Christians to rethink the faith they had long taken for granted. Among those who would be compelled to face the apparent conflicts between modern thought and traditional orthodoxy was Baptist theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921). As president and professor of systematic theology at Rochester Theological Seminary for forty years (1872-1912) Strong stood as the premier theologian of the Northern Baptists at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet, as author John Aloisi shows in this important study, he remains a puzzling figure. Strong considered himself a defender of orthodoxy even as the school he led transitioned to a more modern and arguably less orthodox understanding of the Christian faith. His Systematic Theology went through eight editions, and the later editions increasingly reflected a shift in his thinking. Strong wrestled with how to reconcile Christian theology with modern thought while also trying to solve tensions within his own theology. He hoped to be able to bring modernists and more traditional Christians together around a concept he labeled ethical monism. In the end, while his effort suggested the task was more difficult than many understood it to be, Strong's journey had a significant impact on the direction of Rochester Theological Seminary. This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Theology - Monism - Baptists--Doctrines--History - Philosophy and religionContent provider:
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 3: The American Middle Ages
Jan M. Ziolkowski;Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electr...
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 3: The American Middle Ages
2018; Vol. 00003
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
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Middle Ages--Influence - Medievalism - Middle Ages--Historiography - Civilization, Medieval--InfluenceContent provider:
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Making Black History : The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder;Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Ameri...
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Making Black History : The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
2018
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey Aaron Snyder shows how the study and celebration of black history became an increasingly important part of African American life over the course of the early to mid-twentieth century. It was the glue that held African Americans together as “a people,” a weapon to fight racism, and a roadmap to a brighter future.Making Black History takes an expansive view of the historical enterprise, covering not just the production of black history but also its circulation, reception, and performance. Woodson, the only professional historian whose parents had been born into slavery, attracted a strong network of devoted members to the ASNLH, including professional and lay historians, teachers, students , “race” leaders, journalists, and artists. They all grappled with a set of interrelated questions: Who and what is “Negro”? What is the relationship of black history to American history? And what are the purposes of history? Tracking the different answers to these questions, Snyder recovers a rich public discourse about black history that took shape in journals, monographs, and textbooks and sprang to life in the pages of the black press, the classrooms of black schools, and annual celebrations of Negro History Week. By lining up the Negro history movement's trajectory with the wider arc of African American history, Snyder changes our understanding of such signal aspects of twentieth-century black life as segregated schools, the Harlem Renaissance, and the emerging modern civil rights movement.
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Cather Studies, Volume 12 : Willa Cather and the Arts
Cather Studies;Guy J. Reynolds;Cather Studies;Guy J. Reynolds
Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered int...
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Cather Studies, Volume 12 : Willa Cather and the Arts
2020; Vol. 00012
Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is based. Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft production. Willa Cather and the Arts shows that Cather repeatedly engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions. The essays in this volume are informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods and by the recent publication of Cather's correspondence. The collection begins by exploring the ways Cather encountered and represented high and low cultures, including Cather's use of “racialized vernacular” in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The next set of essays demonstrates how historical research, often focusing on local features in Cather's fiction, contributes to our understanding of American culture, from musicological sources to the cultural development of Pittsburgh. The final trio of essays highlights current Cather scholarship, including a food studies approach to O Pioneers! and an examination of Cather's use of ancient philosophy in The Professor's House. Together the essays reassess Cather's lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
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Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction
William L. Richter;William L. Richter
The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States...
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Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction
2012
The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. Many historians regard the Civil War as the defining event in American history. At stake was not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of the relatively new American experiment in self-government. A very real possibility existed that the union could have been severed, but a collection of determined leaders and soldiers proved their willingness to fight for the survival of what Abraham Lincoln called'the last best hope on earth.'The second edition of this highly readable, one-volume Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction looks to place the war in its historical context. The more than 800 entries, encompassing the years 1844-1877, cover the significant events, persons, politics, and economic and social themes of the Civil War and Reconstruction. An extensive chronology, introductory essay, and comprehensive bibliography supplement the cross-referenced dictionary entries to guide the reader through the military and non-military actions of one of the most pivotal events in American history. The dictionary concludes with a selection of primary documents. This book is an excellent access point for students , researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
Patricia Reid-Merritt;Patricia Reid-Merritt
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settl...
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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
2019
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws'crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act.Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states'perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.
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Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era
Lean'tin L. Bracks;Jessie Carney Smith;Lean'tin L. Bracks;Jessie Carney Smi...
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative a...
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Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era
2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political, and economic ideas that denied them citizenship and access to the American Dream. While the majority of recognized literary and artistic contributors to this period were black males, African American women were also key contributors.Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era profiles the most important figures of this cultural and intellectual movement. Highlighting the accomplishments of black women who sought to create positive change after the end of WWI, this reference work includes representatives not only from the literary scene but also:ActivistsActressesArtistsEducatorsEntrepreneursMusiciansPolitical leaders ScholarsBy acknowledging the women who played vital—if not always recognized—roles in this movement, this book shows how their participation helped set the stage for the continued transformation of the black community well into the 1960s. To fully realize the breadth of these contributions, editors Lean'tin L. Bracks and Jessie Carney Smith have assembled profiles written by a number of accomplished academics and historians from across the country. As such, Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, African American studies, and cultural history, as well as students and anyone wishing to learn more about the women of this important era.
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African Americans in literature--Encyclopedias - African American arts--20th century - African American women authors--Biography - American literature--African American authors--Encyclopedias - Harlem Renaissance--Encyclopedias - African American women artists--BiographyContent provider:
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Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi;Ibram X. Kendi
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and ...
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Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
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Race discrimination--Economic aspects--United States - Race discrimination--Political aspects--United States - Racism--United States--History - African Americans--Social conditions--History - African Americans--Social conditionsContent provider:
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Charlottesville 2017 : The Legacy of Race and Inequity
Claudrena N. Harold;Louis P. Nelson;Claudrena N. Harold;Louis P. Nelson
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of rac...
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Charlottesville 2017 : The Legacy of Race and Inequity
2018
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the University of Virginia's expansive community, many of whose members are involved in teaching issues of racism, public art, free speech, and social ethics. In the wake of this momentous incident, scholars, educators, and researchers have come together in this important new volume to thoughtfully reflect on the historic events of August 11 and 12, 2017.How should we respond to the moral and ethical challenges of our times? What are our individual and collective responsibilities in advancing the principles of democracy and justice? Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity brings together the work of these UVA faculty members catalyzed by last summer's events to examine their community's history more deeply and more broadly. Their essays—ranging from John Mason on the local legacy of the Lost Cause to Leslie Kendrick on free speech to Rachel Wahl on the paradoxes of activism—examine truth telling, engaged listening, and ethical responses, and aim to inspire individual reflection, as well as to provoke considered and responsible dialogue. This prescient new collection is a conversation that understands and owns America's past and—crucially—shows that our past is very much part of our present.Contributors: Asher D. Biemann • Gregory B. Fairchild • Risa Goluboff • Bonnie Gordon • Claudrena N. Harold • Willis Jenkins • Leslie Kendrick • John Edwin Mason • Guian McKee • Louis P. Nelson • P. Preston Reynolds • Frederick Schauer • Elizabeth R. Varon • Rachel Wahl • Lisa Woolfork
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Riots--Virginia--Charlottesville--21st century - African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia--History - Unite the Right Rally, Charlottesville, Va., 2017 - Racism--Virginia--Charlottesville--HistoryContent provider:
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A Mind to Stay : White Plantation, Black Homeland
Sydney Nathans;Sydney Nathans
The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of...
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A Mind to Stay : White Plantation, Black Homeland
2017
The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage, and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era.The story began in 1844, when North Carolina planter Paul Cameron bought 1,600 acres near Greensboro, Alabama, and sent out 114 enslaved people to cultivate cotton and enlarge his fortune. In the 1870s, he sold the plantation to emancipated black families who worked there. Drawing on thousands of letters from the planter and on interviews with descendants of those who bought the land, Nathans unravels how and why the planter's former laborers purchased the site of their enslavement, kept its name as Cameron Place, and defended their homeland against challengers from the Jim Crow era to the present day.Through the prism of a single plantation and the destiny of black families that dwelt on it for over a century and a half, A Mind to Stay brings to life a vivid cast of characters and illuminates the changing meaning of land and landowning to successive generations of rural African Americans. Those who remained fought to make their lives fully free—for themselves, for their neighbors, and for those who might someday return.
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African Americans--Land tenure--Alabama--Hale County - Rural African Americans--Alabama--Hale County--History - Freed persons--Alabama--Hale County - Land tenure--Alabama--Hale County - Plantation owners--Alabama--Hale CountyContent provider:
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
Philip A. Greasley;Philip A. Greasley
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the ...
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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
2016; Vol. Volume two
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
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American literature--Middle West--Dictionaries - Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West--Dictionaries - American literature--Middle West--Bio-bibliography--DictionariesContent provider:
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Great Lives From History : American Women
Trigg, Mary K.;Trigg, Mary K.
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial ti...
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Great Lives From History : American Women
2016
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present offering a fascinating perspective on important women from U.S. history.
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Women--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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The Old Testament encounters Archaeology: the controversy between Sayce and Driver.
Davey, Christopher J.
The context and content of the debate between Archibald Henry Sayce, Professor of Assy...
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The Old Testament encounters Archaeology: the controversy between Sayce and Driver.
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The context and content of the debate between Archibald Henry Sayce, Professor of Assyriology and Samuel Rolles Driver, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University, are described. The inter-related backgrounds of both men are discussed. While Sayce's criticism was focussed on the literary analysis of the Old Testament , Driver criticised Sayce's aims, which he had misunderstood. The debate revealed that different methodologies were applied by the two men and these reflected the distinct mindsets associated with archaeological research and biblical studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Blackening Europe : The African American Presence
Heike Raphael-Hernandez;Heike Raphael-Hernandez
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of...
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Blackening Europe : The African American Presence
2012
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture as the starting point for a discussion of its influences over traditional European structures. Evidence of Europe's blackening abound, form French ministers of Hip-hop and British incarnations of'Shaft'to slavery memorial in the Netherlands and German youth sporting dreadlocks. Collecting essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and fields as diverse as history, literature, politics, social studies, art, film and music, Blackening Europe explores the implications of these cultural hybrids and extends the growing dialogues about Europe's fascination with African America.
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Black people--Europe--Public opinion - African American jazz musicians--Europe - Black people--Europe--Social conditionsContent provider:
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Making Sex Revisited : Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive
Heinz-Jürgen Voß;Heinz-Jürgen Voß
Geschlecht ist gesellschaftlich gemacht. Dass das auch für das biologische Geschlecht ...
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Making Sex Revisited : Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive
2010
Geschlecht ist gesellschaftlich gemacht. Dass das auch für das biologische Geschlecht sex gilt - ein Postulat queer-feministischer Theorien -, kann dieser Band anhand biologischer Theorien erstmals dezidiert und differenziert belegen. Die naturphilosophischen und biologisch-medizinischen Geschlechtertheorien unterschiedlicher Zeitabschnitte (Antike, beginnende Moderne, Gegenwart) werden dargestellt und mit gesellschaftlichen Geschlechterordnungen in Verbindung gebracht. Heinz-Jürgen Voß führt die miteinander ringenden Positionen differenziert aus und zeigt: Mit prozessorientierten Betrachtungsweisen sind in biologischen Theorien viele Geschlechter denkbar - statt nur zwei oder drei.
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Sexology--History - Sex--History - Women. Feminism - Homosexuality--Historiography - AIDS (Disease)--History - Sex--Historiography - Homosexuality--HistoryContent provider:
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
William L. Andrews;Frances Smith Foster;Trudier Harris;William L. Andrews;F...
This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the ...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
2001
This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and careers of writers not found in other reference works. The abridgement also includes the 150 plot summaries of major works. The editors briefly update the biographic details for author entries to include mention of major new works, death dates, and awards since the Companion's 1997 publication. A revised introduction, contributors list, subject index, cross-references, and updated bibliographical notes are also included. The volume reprints in its entirety the five-part fifteen page essay,'Literary History', capturing the full sweep of African American writing in the U.S. from the colonial and early national eras to the present day.
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African Americans in literature--Encyclopedias - American literature--African American authors--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Speak to Your Dead, Write for Your Dead: David Galloway, Malinda Brandon, and a Story of American Reconstruction
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Magill's Choice, Notable Playwrights
Carl Rollyson;Carl Rollyson
Contains biographical sketches and critical studies of the most important and best-kno...
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Magill's Choice, Notable Playwrights
2005
Contains biographical sketches and critical studies of the most important and best-known dramatists from antiquity to the present day. Includes the dramatists whose plays are most often studied in high school and undergraduate literature and drama courses.
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Drama--Bio-bibliography--DictionariesContent provider:
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Widow's Tale, A : 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Charles Hatch;Charles Hatch
Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher Mormon...
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Widow's Tale, A : 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
2003; Vol. 00006
Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher Mormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors'lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations and problems faced by widows, her record has relevance far beyond Mormon history though. As a teenager Helen Kimball had been a polygamous wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith. She subsequently married Horace Whitney. Her children included the noted Mormon author, religious authority, and politician Orson F. Whitney. She herself was a leading woman in her church and society and a writer known especially for her defense of plural marriage. Upon Horace's death, she began keeping a diary. In it, she recorded her economic, physical, and psychological struggles to meet the challenges of widowhood. Her writing was introspective and revelatory. She also commented on the changing society around her, as Salt Lake City in the last decades of the nineteenth century underwent rapid transformation, modernizing and opening up from its pioneer beginnings. She remained a well-connected member of an elite group of leading Latter-day Saint women, and prominent Utah and Mormon historical figures appear frequently in her daily entries. Above all, though, her diary is an unusual record of difficulties faced in many times and places by women, of all classes, whose husbands died and left them without sufficient means to carry on the types of lives to which they had been accustomed.
