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Places the author's own experience within the context of the American military doctrine of ""command responsibility"" - the set of rules that holds individual officers directly responsible for the commission of war crimes under their authority. This work traces the evolution of this doctrine from the Civil War.

Focuses on one neglected mode of authorship in the interwar period - women's middlebrow authorship and its intersection with progressive politics. This work traces four key moments in this distinctive culture of letters through the careers of Dorothy Canfield, Jessie Fauset, Pearl Buck, and Josephine Herbst.

Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure.

Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning - character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. This title talks about Adams.

On a June night in 1959, Betty O'Malley died from lymphatic cancer, leaving behind an alcoholic husband and eight shell-shocked children - seven sons and one daughter, ranging in age from two to fifteen years. The daughter, Carole, was thirteen at the time. Here, she recalls the chaotic course of her family life over the next four years.

Explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden); how his administration brought ""victory culture"" roaring back as part of its War on Terror; and how, from its ""Mission Accomplished"" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.

Contains poems in which the speaker takes the reader through haunting and disjunctive childhood memories, on visits to Azerbaijan and West Des Moines, through the ravages of physical and spiritual illness, into and out of wars and ill-fated romantic escapades.

Born to an immigrant Philadelphia family in 1779, Stephen Decatur became at age twenty-five the youngest man ever to serve as a captain in the US Navy. Although he died prematurely, Decatur played a significant role in the shaping of the nation's identity at a time when the American people were deciding what kind of nation they would become.

In 1962, the publication of Rachel Carson's ""Silent Spring"" sparked widespread public debate on the hazards of pesticide abuse for humans and their environment. This work explores how a newsmaking book enabled a single voice of warning to gain the attention of the entire country, and beyond.

Walden is one of the most frequently assigned texts in literature classes across the country. This work explores a range of topics: ""Walden's"" climb to fame; modes of representation in the text; the relationship between fact and truth; Thoreau and violence; Thoreau and evolutionary theory; and more.

In late September 1820, Governor William King of the newly founded state of Maine dispatched Major Joseph Treat to survey public lands on the Penobscot and Saint John Rivers. This volume includes a transcription of Treat's journal, and records pertaining to the 1820 treaty between the Penobscot Nation and the governing authorities of Maine.

Recalls the years the author spent in the Huerfano (""Orphan"") Valley when it was a petrie dish of countercultural experiments. Documenting her story with photos as well as words, this work describes her participation in the antiwar movement, and her encounters with such icons as Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Stewart Brand, and Baba Ram Dass.

Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1905-1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems for prizes in a 1926 competition. This volume brings together the poetry and a selection of correspondence by this poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Helps the reader understand the circumstances that allow social evils to happen, how intelligent and ostensibly moral people can participate in the most horrendous crimes, and how, at certain historical moments, some individuals are able to rise above their circumstances, address evil in fundamental ways, and expand our moral consciousness.

Points out that Senda Berenson's (1868-1954) pioneering role in the history of women's athletics was more a matter of accident than destiny. Senda Berenson and her brother, Bernard Berenson wrote frequently to each other over the course of their lives. Drawing on their correspondence, this book creates portrait of this remarkable American woman.

Elihu Ashley (1750-1817) was a twenty-three-year-old medical apprentice in Deerfield, Massachusetts, when he began keeping a personal journal in March 1773. This document is accompanied by related letters of Ashley's extended family as well as brief biographies of more than 750 people mentioned by the young doctor in his writings.

Offers a comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry in English. This work includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms - coplas, decimas, bombas - produced by anonymous writers.

Explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why and how urban places can be made greener and more amenable. This book examines topics such as urban and regional greenspaces, urban ecological restoration, social equity, and green design.

Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German. This book examines Bachmann's poetry and prose in historical context, arguing that the feminist interpretations of her writings are the result of shifts in theoretical emphases over a period of more than three decades.

In the early 19th century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied as a model for capitalist industrial development. It was one of the first cities in the US to experience the ravages of deindustrialization. This book explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial role in that process.

Addresses a central question about the Cold War: why did the US go to such lengths to isolate China from all diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties to other nations? Aiming to provide the answer, this book suggests that it was because of the fear of China's emergence as a power capable of challenging the new Asian order the US sought to shape.

Bringing together scholars, politicians, and statesmen, this title examines what can be learned from the wars of the 20th century, and how that knowledge might help us. It reviews what we have learned about war and establishes benchmarks for judging whether that knowledge is being translated into changes in the behaviour of our political cultures.

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.

During the summers of 1942-1944, leading European figures in the arts and sciences met with their American counterparts for urgent conversations about the future of human civilization in a precarious world in meetings named as ""Pontigny"" sessions. This collection of essays assesses the impact and contemporary significance of Pontigny-en-Amerique.

Based on extensive research in African American newspapers and oration texts, this book retraces a vital if, often overlooked, tradition in African American political culture and addresses important issues about black participation in the public sphere.

Illustrates the gains and losses in the struggle to preserve Boston's architectural heritage. With more than 350 photographs, this work offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems lost long ago. It traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the modern booming metropolis.

Features poems that aim to remind us that we are all in the thick of things, the rich and complicated givens. This title moves from subjects as diverse as the surface of Europa to a tiny spider in a tear of wallpaper, and from Pythagoras at Tyre to the wings of a dragonfly.

How Bostonians fashioned a shining image of their city in the early nineteenth century.

Recaptures the astonishing outpouring of poetry in response to the Civil War.

A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.