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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Savage Barbecue

    Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Barbecue is a word that means different things to different people. It can be a verb or a noun. It can be pulled pork or beef ribs. And, especially in the American South, it can cause intense debate and stir regional pride. Perhaps, then, it is no surprise that the roots of this food tradition are often misunderstood.In Savage Barbecue, Andrew Warnes traces what he calls America's first food ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week’s food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • American Tantalus

    Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture

    by Dr. Andrew Warnes ...
    American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Larder

    Food Studies Methods from the American South

    by Andrew Warnes, Angela Jill Cooley, Beth Latshaw, Carolyn de la Peña, David S. Shields, Jessica B. Harris, Justin A. Nystrom, Katie Rawson, Marcie Ferris, Psyche Williams-Forson, Rayna Green, Rebecca Sharpless, Rien Fertel, Tom Hanchett, Wiley C. Prewitt Jr. ...
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    The sixteen essays in The Larder argue 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.The ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Many-Headed Hydra

    Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

    by Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker ...
    Winner of the International Labor History AwardLong before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Stop, Thief!

    The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

    by Peter Linebaugh ...
    Series series Spectre
    In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. “Neither the state nor the market,” say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salvage

    Readings from the Wreck

    by Dionne Brand ...
    One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards.Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not.In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand’s first major book of nonf... ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History

    by David Lowenthal ...
    Heritage has burgeoned over the past quarter of a century from a small élite preoccupation into a major popular crusade. Everything from Disneyland to the Holocaust Museum, from the Balkan wars to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin Marbles bears the marks of the cult of heritage. In this acclaimed 1998 book David Lowenthal explains the rise of this obsession with the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Ned Ludd & Queen Mab

    Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12

    by Peter Linebaugh ...
    Series series PM Pamphlet/Retort
    Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus