Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers offers a detailed history of the newspapers that Frederick Douglass edited during his lifetime and highlights how his periodicals were collective productions. Benjamin Fagan places Black organizing at the center of the story of Douglass’s newspapers, and his newspapers at the center of the story of Black organizing.
Ingrid Nelson traces the development of media concepts from the twelfth through the fifteenth century across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains, offering a coherent theory of premodern media. Medieval Media expands our understanding of media history and opens new avenues for medieval literary studies.
Edited by Richard Popp, Brenton Malin and Wendy A. Woloson
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512827507
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
This volume asks how our understanding of business history changes when we take the emotional dynamics of intimacy to be foundational elements of commercial persuasion. It explores how feelings of personal familiarity, from face-to-face interactions to long-distance appeals, have been leveraged by marketers since the late nineteenth century.
Lingua Ex Machina investigates the role communication technologies played in shaping the reemergence of modern Hebrew speech, arguing that technologies such as the phonograph, typewriter, and telegraph—whose development paralleled the revitalization of Hebrew—were an active force in shaping the language as a modern medium of communication.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator and the first Black woman to edit a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, in North America. Insensible of Boundaries is the first collection of essays dedicated to Shadd Cary’s cultural significance and intellectual contributions.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. Utilizing newly available archival sources, Martin Woessner shows how a philosophy student searching for meaning became the most talked-about director of his generation.
The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. Tracing discourses around film production and film consumption in the city of Hamburg, On Screen and Off illustrates how Nazi ideology was envisaged, imagined, experienced, and occasionally even fought over.
