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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The revolution in digital communications has altered the relationship between citizens and political elites, with important implications for democracy. As new information ecosystems have evolved, as unforeseen examples of their positive and negative consequences have emerged, and as theorizing, data,...
The Persistence of Allegory
Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater,...
People Must Live by Work
Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea—direct job creation—that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct...
Black Gods of the Metropolis
Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
The Language of Fruit
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant changes in cultivation techniques, the expansion of the range of available fruit varieties, and the transformation...
"Hamlet" After Q1
An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple...
The Port Huron Statement
Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated over the course of three days in 1962 at a meeting of student leaders, the statement was issued by Students for a Democratic Society as their founding...
Spaces in Translation
Japanese Gardens and the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka—or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Paris, São Paulo, or Singapore. We often view these gardens as representative of the essence of Japanese culture. Christian Tagsold argues, however,...
Dice, Cards, Wheels
A Different History of French Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French...
The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon
A Twelfth-Century Epic
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually...
Displacing Democracy
Economic Segregation in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income citizens are also less likely to be politically...
Essay on Gardens
A Chapter in the French Picturesque
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape,...
Werner Scholem
A German Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Werner Scholem never took the easy path. Born in 1895 into the Berlin Jewish middle class, he married a young non-Jewish woman of proletarian background. He was the youngest member of the Prussian Parliament in the 1920s, one of the leaders of the German Communist Party, and the editor of the influential...
Beyond Civil Rights
The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. Responding to the demands of African American activists that the United States go beyond civil...