Boydell Brewer: 336 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition;...
Territories of Conflict
Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates...
Stefan Zweig and World Literature
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity....
by Dennis A. Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred....
Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one of the foremost ideologues of the political movement that called itself the Conservative Revolution and as a right-wing opponent of the Nazis. He was speechwriter for and confidant of Franz von Papen...
Electricity in Africa
The Politics of Transformation in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring at least minimum access to electricity for the majority of its population. Yet many sub-Saharan African countries struggle to meet demand. Why is this, and what can be done to reduce energy poverty and further Africa's...
Mandela's Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...
The Road to Soweto
Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression...
by Rebecca Shumway
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya...
by Nina Reid-Maroney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening...
The Men and Women We Want
Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the...
The Lobotomy Letters
The Making of American Psychosurgery
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history of modern medicine. By the late 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans had been lobotomized as treatment for a host of psychiatric disorders. Though the procedure would later be decried...
The Wounded Self
Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write...