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Hampton, originally a summer village for Native Americans from the interior of New Hampshire, was founded in 1638 by a small group of Puritan farmers and fishermen. In 1840, the railroad brought the beginnings of the tourist industry to the …
View book details for The Art of Active Dramaturgy
Transforming Critical Thought into Dramatic Action
The Art of Dramaturgy is a transformative approach to dramaturgical thinking and collaboration. Each chapter includes ways to approach so-called old plays or set texts (think Shakespeare or Pinter or Parks) and then takes it up a notch to show …
This fascinating new history of the Catskills of New York showcases more than two hundred of the best, most evocative vintage postcards available.From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication. Many of the …
View book details for Stories We Live and Grow By
(Re)Telling Our Experiences as Muslim Mothers and Daughters
Interweaving my experiences as a Canadian Muslim woman, mother, (grand)daughter, educator, and scholar throughout this work, I write about living and narratively inquiring (Clandinin and Connelly, Narrative Inquiry; Clandinin) alongside three Muslim mothers and daughters during our daughters transition into …
Take a trip down the Pennsylvania Avenue of years past, the heart of Baltimore's African-American community, when the streets vibrated with life and bass.From 1930 to 1980, Baltimore was a key city to the success of Black entertainers, such as …
View book details for Mothers, Mothering, and Sport
Experiences, Representations, Resistances
Mothers and mothering have been a longtime focus of research and study in various academic disciplines, and common topics of interest in mainstream press and popular culture, yet the experiences of mothers and mothering in the area of sport have …
Parenting brings countless hopes and worries. But when external factors create fear and cast a shadow long and deep across motherhood, what happens to the act of mothering? Through personal and academic essays and poetry from Canada, the United States, …
Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of …
This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of childrens originstories as a part of contemporary mothering labor. The first two sections outline perspectives from mother authors about how they strategically craft complex origin stories …
View book details for Mothers of the Nations
Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery
The voices of Indigenous women world-wide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might …
View book details for Critical Perspectives on 21st Century Friendship
Polyamory, Polygamy, and Platonic Affinity
This anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject of feminist and legal study and hone …
View book details for Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text
Essays on Caribbean Womens Writing
While scholarship on Caribbean womens literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by …
View book details for The Basics of Foreign Exchange Markets
A Monetary Systems Approach
In an increasingly interdependent global economy, an understanding of foreign exchange markets is more critical than ever. These markets are inextricably entwined with underlying monetary standards and consequently they are treated conjointly in this book. Four different foreign exchange rate …
View book details for Time and memory in reggae music
The politics of hope
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music …
View book details for Einfuhrung in z/OS und OS/390
Web-Services und Internet-Anwendungen fur Mainframes
Das Buch beschreibt die wichtigsten Komponenten der zSeries- und S/390-Rechner und der z/OS- und OS/390-Betriebssystem-Umgebungen. Die Mehrheit der groen deutschen Unternehmen setzt als zentrale Server zSeries- und S/390-Rechner ein, die ihre hohe Zuverlassigkeit, Sicherheit, Performance und Skalierbarkeit einer ganzen Reihe …
View book details for Infidel feminism
Secularism, religion and women's emancipation, England 18301914
Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped …
The later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into political and intellectual culture …
View book details for The social world of early modern Westminster
Abbey, court and community, 15251640
Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book is the first study to …
View book details for A minority and the state
Travellers in Britain in the twentieth century
This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century. It draws together detailed archival research at local and national level to explore the impact of state and legislative developments on Travellers, …
View book details for Peace, war and party politics
The Conservatives and Europe, 184659
Peace, war and party politics examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Partys significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britains relations with Europe. The book considers the Conservatives response - in opposition and government - to …
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Irish foreign policy in transition
This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity. Many debates within contemporary International Relations focus on the relative …
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American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism
Newly available in paperback, this book looks at how rap and metal have been highly engaged with Americas role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially been the case when genres hitherto clearly identified …
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Studies in intellectual history
This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked Americas engagement with the world during this period. The collection is organised chronologically …
How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in the same way?This book unveils the dynamics of biblical knowledge and dissemination in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. …
View book details for The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions
This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EUs relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of …
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