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Traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia, in 1918. Turner's story became a centerpiece of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders campaign for the 1922 Dyer Bill, which sought to make lynching a federal crime.

Of all the issues in international relations, disputes over territory are the most salient and most likely to lead to armed conflict. Understanding their endurance is of paramount importance. Although many states have settled their disagreements over territory, seventy-one disputes involving nearly 40 percent of all sovereign states remain unresolved.In this study, Krista E. Wiegand examines why some states are willing and able to settle territorial disputes while others are not. She argues that states may purposely maintain disputes over territory in order to use them as bargaining leverage in negotiations over other important unresolved issues. This dual strategy of issue linkage and coercive diplomacy allows the challenger state to benefit from its territorial claim. Under such conditions, it has strong incentive to pursue diplomatic and militarized threats and very little incentive to settle the dispute over territory.Wiegand tests her theory in four case studies, three representing the major types of territorial disputes: uninhabited islands and territorial waters, as seen in tensions between China and Japan over the Senkaku and Diaoyu Islands; inhabited tracts of territory, such as the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla affecting Morocco and Spain; and border areas, like the Shebaa Farms dispute between Lebanon and Israel. A fourth case study of a dispute between China and Russia represents a combination of all three types; settled in 2008, it serves as a negative example. All these disputes involve areas that have key strategic and economic importance both regionally and globally.

Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in Useful Gifts explore what Ruthie knows. The youngest child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s, Ruthie Zimmer speaks and signs. Interpreting for her parents, she tries to make sense of worlds as close as her familys fourth-floor apartment, as expansive as her rooftop playground and as diverse as the neighborhood below.The ways of language, its ways, its habits, its humoras well as the demons that rise within us when we fail to communicateform an undercurrent in many of Carole Glickfelds stories. In What My Mother Knows Hannah Zimmer gleans the neighborhood gossip from her apartment window, telling Ruthie in a gesture that Mrs. Frangione is pregnant again, and announcing in clipped, terse signs that the OBriens have divorced. Know drunk?Unhappy, fight, wife, divorce. There is, in My Fathers Darling the hoarse, choked screaming of Albert Zimmer, Honorfatherhonorfatherhonorfather striking his daughter Melva has she sinks to the floor muttering Misermisermisermiser in the distant, disembodied voice of a ventriloquist. And, in Talking Mama-Loshn there is Sidney, Ruthies older brother, getting down to business, sprinkling his speech with Yiddish, French and Germanwords that project a wisdom and cosmopolitanism he clearly craves.Three floors below the Zimmer apartment, Ruthie enters the altogether different realm of Dot, a thrice-married hatcheck girl, and her daughter and son, Glory and Roy Rogers. These are characters who, as their names seem to promise, bring adventure and excitementfrom acted-out fantasies of Hollywood to gunfights amid the rooftop battlements of Fort Arden, from impulsive, stylish haircuts to Chinese food with pork. And, across the stoop, Ruthie visits with the Opals familyIris, Ivy, and Ionethree daughters whose endless lessons in charm, elocution and posture prime them for future fame and glory.In Useful Gifts, Carole Glickfeld creates, through the optimistic voice of a young girl, intimacy with the complexity and heartbreak of a world we hope she can survive. In the closing story of the collection, Ruth Zimmer, twenty years older, retraces her neighborhoodnot only to preserve her memories but to understand, finally, their effect on her now, a grown woman living three thousand miles away.

Focuses on the growth of periodical literature from 1850 to 1910 to illustrate how Victorian and Edwardian culture problematized fatherhood within the family. Drawing on political, scientific, domestic, and religious periodicals, Nelson shows how positive portrayals of fatherhood virtually disappeared as motherhood claimed an exalted position.

The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality. Though settings and situations vary, the same sense of overwhelming urgency recurs throughout the collection.

Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters - and her settings - are, most of them, midwestern. All of the stories in this unusual first collection stick in the reader's mind long after they have been read.

Written during an important transition in the history of American children's literature, these three novels are of special interest to scholars of American Romanticism. Perhaps most important of all, they have not lost their attraction for young readers.

Analyzing the historical contexts in which female Gothic novels and slave narratives were composed, Kari J. Winter shows that both types of writing expose the sexual politics at the heart of patriarchal culture and represent terrifying aspects of life for women.

Using the works and careers of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens as case studies, Christopher P. Wilson measures the advantages and costs of the new professional literary role and captures the drama of this transformative epoch in American journalism and letters.

Wilson explores how these white collar representations became part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions by investigating the material experience and social vocabularies within white collar life itself.

Based on a wide range of sources, including NYA-related documents at the National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, this is the first full-length study of this important agency. By showing how the NYA served as an instrument for realizing New Deal ambitions, it offers rich insights into not only the NYA but the New Deal as well.

The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises.

In the role of "historian-detective" Bernard Mayo presents in lecture form three case histories in hero-worship. These abundantly illustrate the uses and abuses of history, revealing how the flesh-and-blood men, humanly fallible yet with the inspiring qualities of greatness, have been distorted and obscured by conflicting interpretations and by myths that defame and myths that glorify.

The first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Montagu (1689-1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Her letters illuminate the difficulties she encountered in an era of significant cultural change.

Emphasizing the variety of stagecraft in the Victorian age, the contributors to When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare present a composite portrait of the vibrant theatrical worlds that existed in both nineteenth-century New York and London.

Ames argues that the private party has become the festival of modern culture and has served as a shaping force in literature. With his creative application of literary theory and ethnographic studies of festival, Ames demonstrates the persistence of the festive vision and its significance in the evolution of modern fiction.

Contains such stories as ""Upon Completion of Baldness"", ""All Boy"", ""Dr Deneau's Punishment"", ""The Children Beneath the Seat"", and ""Idyllic Little Bali"".

In a news career spanning more than sixty years, Joseph C. Harsch was a firsthand witness to many of the great events of the twentieth century. As a correspondent for all three of the major networks, he became one of the most respected figures in the profession, a mentor to a generation of journalists covering international affairs.

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.

Offers a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Diane Mutti Burke focuses on the Missouri counties located along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to investigate small-scale slavery at the level of the household and neighbourhood.

In A Peculiar Humanism, William E. Wiethoff assesses the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the customary restraints placed on judicial advocacy.

Over the course of her long public life as a teacher, labor union lobbyist, and activist for the rights of public school teachers, Reed emerged as a groundbreaking leader, unafraid of taking on the educational and political hierarchies of the South.

Samuel Porter Jones (1847-1906)-"or just plain Sam Jones," as he preferred to be called-was the foremost southern evangelist of the nineteenth century. A leading political activist, he played an important role in the selling of a new industrialized South and was thus a clerical counterpart to his friend Henry Grady.

Retracing the debates in the House Judiciary Committee as it voted on the articles of impeachment, LaRue shows that our representatives-all of them lawyers-chose to center their discussions largely on the president's violation of the law. Yet, LaRue suggests, far greater matters than simple lawlessness were at stake.

This biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981). Viewing Gordon's life in the context of female literary tradition, Jonza reclaims Gordon's integrity, individuality, and artistic vision from beneath a self-effacing, sometimes detractive, public image.

Based on years of research and thousands of notes left by John Bennett, Mr. Skylark is an unusually intimate biography of a pivotal figure in the Charleston Renaissance, the brief period between the two World Wars that first witnessed many of the cultural and artistic changes soon to sweep the South.

Tells of the Potomac Institute's role in the Kennedy administration's civil rights policy debates, in helping the Defense Department set up what would become model guidelines for civil rights compliance by federal contractors, and in informing, educating, and reassuring Americans about Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act.

Historians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans influenced political conflict in the decade. Eagles uses the issue of congressional reapportionment to examine politics in the 1920s and to test the urban-rural thesis.