How communities across the US South are fighting to save their home from the effects of environmental change Rising seas, extreme heat, fragile infrastructure, and longstanding social inequities make the American South particularly susceptible to the hazards of climate change and weather events. Climate Crossroads reveals how environmental ......
Reading Finnegans Wake through ancient Irish mythology and tradition Many scholars of Finnegans Wake have long suspected that a key to the Wake lay deep within the core of Irish myth. George Gibson proposes an interpretation of the novel based upon a previously unrecognized paradigm from Irish mythology underlying the entirety of the work. This ......
The story of the "Lucky Chuck," which earned six battle stars during WWII In November 1942, the amphibious transport ship USS Charles Carroll carried troops from Norfolk to invade North Africa. In 1945 it was transferred to the Pacific for the invasion of Okinawa. In between, the "Lucky Chuck," as the ship was fondly known, participated in the ......
Inside the 100-year history of one of America's most elaborate movie palaces Opulent and nostalgic, Tampa Theatre is one of the most magnificent movie palaces of the early twentieth century. On the 100th anniversary of this iconic building, Tampa Theatre: A Century of Stories chronicles its complete history for the first time. This book traces ......
Eight decades of presidential policies and how they shaped American Jewish identity and history The first book to explore how American presidents have responded to and shaped issues central to Jewish Americans across eighty years, The US Presidency and American Jewry from FDR to Trump traces presidential actions and their effects on both ......
Spaces of Globalization, Resistance, and Transformation
Reinterpreting Florida's mission sites as places where Indigenous peoples and missionaries negotiated power, culture, and survival This book approaches Florida's early Spanish missions as dynamic, multiethnic spaces where Indigenous actors resisted as well as negotiated the transformation of their world into challenging spaces of globalization. ......
An introduction to the fascinating world of Joyce's manuscripts This book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts. Daniel Ferrer offers a practical demonstration of the theory of genetic criticism, the study of the manuscript and textual development of a literary text. Using a ......
Maize and Ecological Worldbuilding in Central Mexico
Inside the farming traditions that have supported food sovereignty and community resistance in past and present Tlaxcala In this book, Keitlyn Alcantara draws on research from the state of Tlaxcala in Mexico to describe how its people resisted imperial domination and survived centuries of upheaval. Threatened by embargoes from the Aztec Empire ......
Exploring how humans and animals in the US Southeast interacted to shape social, ritual, and cosmological worlds across thousands of years Archaeologists often approach the study of animals mainly as evidence of human diet or ecology, but this volume highlights the broader significance of animals across what is now the US Southeast from the ......
