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  • The Age of Migration

    International Population Movements in the Modern World

    by Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller ...
    Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they occur, and their consequences for both origin and destination societies. International migration is one of the most emotive issues of our times, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Cast Down

    Abjection in America, 1700-1850

    by Mark J. Miller ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexualityDerived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cast Down

    Abjection in America, 1700-1850

    by Mark J. Miller ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Derived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of the soul. In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • Long Before Stonewall

    Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

    Edited by Thomas A. Foster ...
    2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • American Dark Age

    Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism

    by Keidrick Roy ...
    How a group of Black liberal thinkers challenged the race-based feudalism that reigned in the early American republicThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World. What they saw was a racially stratified country that reflected not the ideals of a modern republic but rather the remnants ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

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  • America's Philosopher

    John Locke in American Intellectual Life

    by Claire Rydell Arcenas ...
    America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history.The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues of identity, republicanism, and the nature of knowledge itself. Claire Rydell Arcenas's new book tells the story ... Read more

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  • Rhetorical Drag

    Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History

    by Carroll ...
    An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literatureIn this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. This “gender impersonation” significantly shaped the authorial voice and complicated the use ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

    by Bryce Traister ...
    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth ... Read more

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  • Making The American Self : Jonathan Edwards To Abraham Lincoln

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but ... Read more

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  • Women's Irony

    Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories

    by Tarez Samra Graban ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    In Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories,author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of feminist scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical paradigm for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Using irony as a form of ideological disruption, this innovative approach allows scholars to ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • People of Paradox (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

    by Michael Kammen ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In this major interpretive work Mr. Kammen argues that most attempt to understand America’s history and culture have minimized its complexity, and he demonstrates that, from our beginnings, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows now, during the years of colonization, ... Read more

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