A chronicle of war infused with uncommon cheer, this is a young man's education in life and death, and a narrative of war told completely in letters. During World War II, thousands of high school graduates were drafted into the army to be trained in colleges as engineers or other technicians but instead were assigned to fighting units and joined ......
Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball's youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology. ......
The Sartorial Arts, Related Crafts, and the Commercial Paper Pattern
Containing 2,729 entries, Kevin L. Seligman's bibliography concentrates on books, manuals, journals, and catalogs covering a wide range of sartorial approaches over nearly five hundred years. After a historical overview, Seligman approaches his subject chronologically, listing items by century through 1799, then by decade. In this section, he ......
Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System
More than thirty contributors examine how the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and policy responses to the COVID-19 virus affected crime and justice in the United States.
Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System
More than thirty contributors examine how the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and policy responses to the COVID-19 virus affected crime and justice in the United States.
In this remarkable study, Gail Turley Houston examines the rich interplay of consumption as alimental process, medical entity, psychological construct, and economic practice in order to explore Charles Dickens's fictional representations of Victorian culture as he presents it in his novels. Drawing from medical, historical, economic, ......
Women's Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media
The premise of Confessional Politics is that in this confessional age, "telling all is in." From a unique variety of perspectives and angles, the essays in this collection explore the association of confession with femininity; they examine its function as a gender-specific discourse as they probe its many feminized genres and subgenres. ......
This provocative new study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War - killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but ......
This collection of sixteen essays, authored by major scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric, offers an eclectic range of opinions, perspectives, and interpretations regarding the place of composition studies in its academic context. Covering the history of rhetoric and composition from the nineteenth century to the present, the ......
