Patrick Newman: 10 books
Tracking the Weretiger
Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and “little tigers,” or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work...
Firefight
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
The Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics—it was an effort that sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship...
To Live an Antislavery Life
Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.
Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention...
Punishing the Black Body
Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and...
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
The Mulatta Concubine
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies....
Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica...
Diplomacy in Black and White
John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic...