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  • Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires

    Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgrounds who were deeply attuned to the power of performance. Tracy C. Davis explores nineteenth-century reform campaigns through the pioneering work of a family of activists – prominent anti-slavery lecturer George Thompson, his daughter ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Black Vigilantes

    Thah Xah Qshunah

    by Tracy L. Davis, Kenya S. Moore ...
    The recent killing of an unarmed Black man has sparked a world-wide social justice movement and has given rise to the Black Lives Matter Movement.As government officials devise plans to overthrow the uprisings, cities all over the country continue to burn in America.National Guards and Federal troops are deployed and given direct orders in assisting the police with crushing all lawlessness. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Actresses as Working Women

    Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    Series series Gender in Performance
    Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Stages of Emergency

    Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Advancing Social Justice

    Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus

    by Tracy Davis, Laura M. Harrison ...
    Tools and strategies to foster transformative change for social justiceMany believe that social justice education is simply the new politically correct term for diversity-focused intervention or multiculturalism. The true definition, however, is more complex, nuanced, and important to understand. Higher education today needs clarity on both the concept of social justice and effective tools to ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis, Paul Rae ...
    We often know performance when we see it – but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how mixed methods research is necessary for investigating and explaining performance and advancing new critical agendas in cultural study. The wide range of aesthetic forms, cultural meanings, and social functions found in theatre and performance ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Uncle Tom's Cabins

    The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

    by Stefka Mihaylova, Tracy C. Davis ...
    As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Masculinities in Higher Education

    Theoretical and Practical Considerations

    Edited by Jason A. Laker, Tracy Davis ...
    Masculinities in Higher Education provides empirical evidence, theoretical support, and developmental interventions for educators working with college men both in and out of the classroom. The critical philosophical perspective of the text challenges the status-quo and offers theoretically sound educational strategies to successfully promote men’s learning and development. Contesting dominant ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis, Peter W. Marx ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical periods and cultures, this collection of fascinating essays poses the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Puzzle Solver

    A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son

    by Tracie White ...
    A Father, His Son, and an Unrelenting Quest for a CureAt the age of twenty-seven, Whitney Dafoe was forced to give up his life as a photographer who traveled the world. Bit by bit a mysterious illness stole away the pieces of his life: First, it took the strength of his legs, then his voice, and his ability to eat. Finally, even the sound of a footstep in his room became unbearable. The Puzzle ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Make a Pretty Sound

    A Story of Ella Jenkins—The First Lady of Children's Music

    by Traci N. Todd ...
    Illustrated by Eleanor Davis ...
    Once upon a time, children's music was just Mother Goose, nursery songs, and lullabies. And then came Ella Jenkins.Ella Jenkins is an American folk singer and living legend dubbed “The First Lady of Children’s Music.” For nearly 70 years, she has been writing and performing music that has entertained and engaged generations of young listeners. In Make a Pretty Sound, Ella’s life and legacy are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook