Dartmouth College Press: 74 books
An American Body | Politic
A Deleuzian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Bernd Herzogenrath’s An American Body|Politic is a study of the intersection between the material, biological body and body as political and cultural metaphor in American politics, religion, literature, and popular culture. Deeply influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Herzogenrath’s approach...
Against Immediacy
Video Art and Media Populism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which “the people” were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. During this time, artists and organizations...
Conservancy
The Land Trust Movement in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Land trusts, or conservancies, protect land by owning it. Although many people are aware of a few large land trusts—The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, for instance—there are now close to 1,300 local trusts, with more coming into being each month. American land trusts are diverse,...
Invisible Masters
Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Invisible Masters rewrites the familiar narrative of the relation between Puritan religious culture and New England’s economic culture as a history of the primary discourse that connected them: service. The understanding early Puritans had of themselves as God’s servants and earthly masters was...
Community without Consent
New Perspectives on the Stamp Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has...
Arctic Adaptations
Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The common view of indigenous Arctic cultures, even among scholarly observers, has long been one of communities continually in ecological harmony with their natural environment. In Arctic Adaptations, Igor Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information...
by Jean Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Newcomers to Rousseau’s works and those who are familiar with his writings will find something to surprise them both in this wide variety of short pieces from every period of his life. Among the important theoretical writings found here are the “Fiction or Allegorical Fragment on Revelation”...
A More Conservative Place
Intellectual Culture in the Bush Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Identifying the historical antecedents of President George W. Bush’s imperial ambitions and the sources of the reactionary thought and politics that underlie them, Paul A. Bové shows how neoconservatism represents a singular danger to democracy. At the same time, he criticizes the equally disheartening...
The Black Pacific Narrative
Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black...
In the Name of the Mother
Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian...
by William C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The similes in Homer are treasure troves. They describe scenes of Greek life that are not presented in their simplest form anywhere else: landscapes and seascapes, storms and calm weather, fighting among animals, civic disputes, athletic contests, horse races, community entertainment, women involved...
by William C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
William C. Scott extends concepts set forth in his Goodwin Award-winning Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (1984) by examining scansion patterns in the odes of the seven surviving Sophoclean tragedies. Analyzing the play as performed-its full expression in words, music, and dance-Scott finds that...
Diseases of Poverty
Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Modern Plagues
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Only a few decades ago, we were ready to declare victory over infectious diseases. Today, infectious diseases are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality throughout the world. This book examines the epidemiology and social impact of past and present infectious disease epidemics in the...
Trauma and Recovery on War's Border
A Guide for Global Health Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
An increasing number of students and professionals are choosing to travel the globe to engage with the realities of trauma and human suffering through mental health aid. But in the field of global mental health, good intentions are not enough to ensure good training, development, and care. The risk...