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    Huey P. Newton

    A Life from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...
    Series series Civil rights movement

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Some might say that Huey P. Newton was destined to bridge two worlds that rarely intersect. Here was a man who could quote Plato’s Republic as easily as he could navigate the dangerous streets of Oakland. His mind was as sharp as his street instincts were keen, and this unique combination allowed him to transform simmering frustration and deep-seated anger into something far more powerful—the ... Read more

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    Malayan Campaign

    A History from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    Prior to December 1941, Great Britain commanded an empire that stretched across the globe. However, after the Malayan Campaign, which began on December 8, 1941 and ended on January 31, 1942, the world order was up for grabs as the Empire of Japan contested British rule and American military might in the Pacific in the early years of World War II.Influenced by racial stereotypes, the West initially ... Read more

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    Sitting Bull

    A Life from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...
    Series series Native American History

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    A prominent Lakota Sioux chief and medicine man, Sitting Bull was both a man of peace and a man of war as he sought to simultaneously fight and negotiate on behalf of his people during the westward expansion of the United States. It was his visions that inspired and led the Native American warriors to victory in the legendary Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. This triumph would, however, be ... Read more

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    Mitanni Empire

    A History from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...
    Series series Ancient Civilizations

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    The Mitanni Empire came to prominence at a time when the Egyptians, the Hittites, and the Assyrians were all angling for supremacy after the fall of Babylon in the sixteenth century BCE. Mitanni made alliances and conquered other lands, excelled at the military art of charioteering, suffered invasions, endured assassinations, and saw a dynasty rise and fall. In what is now southeastern Turkey, ... Read more

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  • Shakespearean Recognitions

    Philosophies of the Post-Tragic

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Shakespearean Recognitions: Philosophies of the Post-Tragic explores Shakespeare’s unique contribution to the history of recognition as both a narrative trope and a moral event. Recognition, central to classical anagnorisis and modern moral philosophy, also has deep roots in medieval Christian devotion, where salvation often hinged on reciprocal recognition with God. Shakespeare inherited this ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Red and Black in Haiti

    Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier to the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Performance and Religion in Early Modern England

    Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    Series series ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
    In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture.Smith argues that early modern theatrical and religious practices are better understood through ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberty, Fraternity, Exile

    Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    In this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. The frequent movement of people between Haiti and Jamaica in the decades following emancipation in the British Caribbean brought the countries into closer contact and influenced discourse about the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • It Happens at Comic-Con

    Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon

    Edited by Ben Bolling, Matthew J. Smith ...
    This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer.Investigations range from the practices of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Jamaica Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Diana Paton, Matthew J. Smith ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Literature and Religious Experience

    Beyond Belief and Unbelief

    Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Caleb D. Spencer ...
    This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry.Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • More Critical Approaches to Comics

    Theories and Methods

    Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Matthew Brown, Randy Duncan ...
    In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD