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Applies a translingual and transmodal framework informed by feminist rhetorical practice to three distinct case studies that demonstrate women using unique and effective rhetorical strategies in political, religious, and artistic contexts.

In this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant's influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. Brown brings this important but understudied figure in American history to the foreground.

Argentina values the perception that it is a country of European immigrants. This book traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a "black disappearance" by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a "white" Argentina.

A charming, humorous, and colorful coming of age memoir. Bay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key that chronicles his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was a sleepy resort community, deserted in the winter, with a considerable population of working-class residents.

Published serially in the spiritualist journal Banner of Light in 1860, Cosella Wayne, or Will and Destiny is the first coming-of-age novel to depict Jews in the United States and transforms what we know about the history of early American Jewish literature.

Offers an insightful history and analysis of James Dobson's rise to fame, his effect on American evangelical culture, and subsequent descent from relevance. Extensively researched, Lovdal Stephens has scoured through Dobson's books, articles, and other materials in order to explore how evangelicals defined and defended the traditional family.

Addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference.

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip Beidler investigates the assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the debatably aimless trajectories of war itself.

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch offers the perspective of the submariners themselves - lending them a voice and paying homage to their service.

Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics. This book gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by this crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters.

Positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable.

Examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society.

Addresses emerging biotechnologies with prodigious potential to benefit humankind but that are also fraught with ethical consequences. James Bradley guides discussions of the thorny issues resulting from the development of new biotechnologies. He also highlights the responsibilities of scientists to conduct research in an ethical manner.

A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South. A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina in 1737 and quickly emerged as one of the most proficient deerskin traders in the South.

As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. This book revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites.

The first book-length study of schooner-based pearling, this book explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia's most influential pearler.

Offers a rare first-person account of the landmark American naval expedition to Japan to establish commercial relations between the two countries. George Gideon's letters have been meticulously transcribed and annotated by the editors and are an invaluable primary historical source.

Looks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection.

Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable sub-discipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. This volume presents essays that explore this growing field.

Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.

In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. This book is an an anthology of the most important historical sources on presumptions and burdens of proof.

Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, "rewriting southern Jewish history". A New Vision of Southern Jewish Historyfeatures essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article.

The relationship between John Abbot and William Swainson - who never met in person - is explored in this volume. The book also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.

Gathers reminiscences - by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once - that span Kurt Vonnegut's entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with.

Presents stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary. Winner of FC2's Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.

An enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short stories that examines how women in society are confined by the limitations and expectations of pop culture, politics, advertising, fashion, myth, and romance.

Presents stories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves. Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.

In both its subject and its approach, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making is an account unlike any other of a city unlike any other - storied, inimitable, and thriving. G. Ward Hubbs has written a lively and enlightening bicentennial history of Tuscaloosa that is by turns enthralling, dramatic, disturbing, and uplifting.