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  • - Willa Cather's Pittsburgh
    av Cather Studies
    441

    Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways Willa Cather's writing career was shaped by the decade she lived in Pittsburgh (1896-1906) and the artistic, professional, and personal connections that she made while sojourning there through 1916.

  • - Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces
     
    337

    This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

  • - Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945
     
    391

    National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.

  • - The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict
    av A. Elisabeth Reichel
    847

    Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.

  • - Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
     
    737

    French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

  • - Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories
    av Brian Frehner
    337,99

  • - Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France
    av Sarah Ann Frank
    737

    Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.

  • av Paulette F. C. Steeves
    377 - 737

  • - Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction
    av Rochelle Tobias
    761

    Pseudo-Memoir explores the return in the twentieth century of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century.

  • av Indigo Moor
    197

    Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perusing what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover.

  • av Saddiq Dzukogi
    201

    Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.

  • - Minor Literature Today
    av Gregg Lambert
    307

    Gregg Lambert offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze's hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the conjuncture of contemporary critical theory.

  • - Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante's Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno
    av Dinty W. Moore
    261

    Dinty W. Moore asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing something that only makes us miserable?

  • av Cheswayo Mphanza
    247

    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, The Rinehart Frames questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe upon monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it.

  • - Bobby Jones and the Golden Age of Golf
    av Ron Rapoport
    307

    The biography of Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam and a key figure in America's Golden Age of Sports.

  • - Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces
     
    1 237

    This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

  • - Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean
    av Ashley M. Williard
    737

    Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of race.

  • - Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914
    av Charlotte Ann Legg
    681

    The New White Race is a cultural history of the development of the press in Algeria under French rule.

  • av Tiffany Midge
    261

    This powerful and inviting collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America, reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred.

  • - Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14
     
    507

    Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History circles around the conscious recognition of margins and suggests it is time to bring the margins to the center, both in terms of a changing theoretical openness and a supporting body of scholarship.

  • - Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater
    av Ann C Christensen
    377

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    1 117

    The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society's library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.

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    481

    The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society's library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.

  • - Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954
    av Spencer D. Segalla
    737

    Spencer D. Segalla examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores how environmental catastrophes impacted the dissolution of France's empire in North Africa.

  • - The Making of America's Active Transportation Network
    av Peter Harnik
    261

    From Rails to Trails is the fascinating tale of the political rebirth of bicycle advocacy and of how miles of abandoned corridors were converted to multiuse trails.

  • - California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement
    av Kathleen A. Cairns
    277

    At Home in the World examines the extraordinary and largely unheralded role women played in forging the modern environmental movement, specifically in California.

  • - Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939-1982
    av Alejandro J. Gomez del Moral
    737

    Buying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1939-1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spain's transition to democracy during the late 1970s.

  • av Hilda Raz & Aaron Raz Link
    277

    Aaron Raz Link began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. This memoir documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change.

  • - The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player
    av Jeremy Beer
    277

    The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball's greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.

  • - The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two
    av Sidney Thompson
    277

    Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career.

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