Books and Culture reviews W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet
12/16/2008
Edward J. Blum's W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet was chosen to be the latest Books & Culture Book of the Week. Reviewer Kathryn Lofton writes: Students of U.S…. READ MORE
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The Inarticulate Renaissance–Now Available
12/16/2008
The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence Carla Mazzio 360 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4138-9 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
From Paris to Pompeii–Now Available
12/16/2008
From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology Göran Blix 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4136-5 | $59.95… READ MORE
Praise for a Warfighter’s Book
12/15/2008
"Tom Nichols teaches at the U.S. Naval War College. Eve of Destruction is not a Beltway clerk's wonk tome about how fine the world would be if people with multi-syllabic… READ MORE
Revolutionary Backlash– Now in Paperback
12/12/2008
Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic Rosemarie Zagarri 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4027-6 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE
A Depression Era Recipe for Today’s Troubled Consumer
12/11/2008
Has the economic downturn and holiday shopping made you a little stressed out? In the following essay, Megan J. Elias, historian and author of Stir It Up: Home Economics in… READ MORE
America’s Waterfront Revival–Now Available
12/10/2008
America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Peter Hendee Brown 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4122-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
Exotic Nation– Now Available
12/09/2008
Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain Barbara Fuchs 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4135-8 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
Bloom on Private Sector Methods in Public Housing
12/09/2008
In today's Gotham Gazette, Nicholas Dagen Bloom places calls for private sector methods and non-government revenue in public housing within the context of the New York City Housing Authority's overall… READ MORE
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa–Now Available
12/04/2008
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions Edited by Makau Mutua 400 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4112-9 | $79.95… READ MORE
