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When John Toner, a retired Cleveland judge, decided in 1990 to spend a month with his son in war-torn Sri Lanka, he was as much a stranger to his seventh child as to the hardships of life in a third world country. This is a chronicle of the month they spent together in the poorest of conditions.

An insightful collection of observations on various American funerary traditions. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny.

A collection of ten essays that focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. It views a region often at odds with itself on matters like race and religion, and identifies spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness.

Provides a comparative analysis of diverse postwar families and examines the lives and case records of men and women who applied to adopt or provide pre-adoptive foster care in the 1940s and 1950s. The book considers an array of individuals who found themselves on the margins of a social world that privileged family membership.

Pugh explores Capote through a cinematic lens, skillfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote's biography with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays, and adaptations of his works that composed his fraught relationship with the Hollywood machine.

A collection of fifteen original essays that touches on a variety of topics related to the genesis of Brecht's works and their impact on contemporary literature, theatre, and film. Discussed are Brecht's confrontation with Marxism and its political manifestations; the influence of his work on film and theatre; and the uses his literary descendants have made of his political commitment.

Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science attempts to elaborate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law. It outlines the features of Muslim juristic thought.

Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways.

First published in 1972, it is one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in the antebellum South's history, culture, and politics. Drawing from diaries, the census, the press, and farm records, it has become a landmark of food ways scholarship.

This portfolio of eighty-three photographs provides a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten took these photographs over the course of three decades. Included are images of such luminaries as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, and James Baldwin.

The author of this book recalls his boyhood during the 1950s in the small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, where whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows.

This is a book about looking and listening. It incorporates travel and natural history writing that interweaves human stories with those of wild creatures. Distinguished by Hoffman's belief that through awareness, curiosity, and openness we have the potential to forge abiding relationships with a range of places, it illuminates how these many connections can teach us to be at home in the world.

Argues that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies.

Argues that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies.

Judy Chicago's art installation The Dinner Party was a sensation when it debuted in 1979 and is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Gerhard examines its popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream.

Explores all aspects of hop culture in the US and provides a background for understanding the buildings devoted to drying, baling, and storing hops. Michael A. TomIan considers the history of these structures as he illustrates their development over almost two centuries, the result of agrarian commercialism and nearly continuous technological improvement.

Investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. Wesley G. Phelps argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.

A study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the Southeastern US coast. Based on overseers' letters, slave testimonies and plantation records, it offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action.

This volume presents Smollett's 1755 translation of Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes discussion of the composition, publication, and reception of the work, and considers it's originality or debt to other versions.

Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded - or swayed - the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial Spanish administration's attitude toward resident Americans.

Covering a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state actors are considered.

Broadly situates Pynchon's novel in ""long sixties"" history, revealing a fiction deeply of and about its time. Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation and social and psychological control.

Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

Addressing the literature and culture of black America, This Is My Century, a classic first published in 1989, marked a significant contribution to American Poetry, bringing together Walker's selection of one hundred of her own poems.

Tells the stories of all the peoples who made indigo a key part of the colonial South Carolina experience as she explores indigo's relationships to land use, slave labour, textile production and use, sartorial expression and fortune building.

This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Sixth-grader Clara Silverstein tells her story, with questions about race and the use of schools to engineer social change.

This volume explores the advances and retreats of tabacco's influence in South Carolina from the colonial period to its heydey at the turn of the 20th century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, World War II and right through to the late-20th century controversies.

Offers an interdisciplinary look at the spectacle and significance of the circus across a century of change in a southern state. This book relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town.