Fritz Mueller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenthcentury naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Mueller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual kinship between Mueller and Darwin, detailing a lively correspondence spanning seventeen years, in ......
Revealing the interplay and influence of dance and science during an age of colonial expansion Bringing together dance and science, two paradigms that explore the nature and possibilities of the body, this volume illuminates the meanings and articulations of dance in nineteenth-century societies. This global collection of studies reveals how the ......
The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in South America
This book is the first to explore the concept of partible paternity, the aboriginal South American belief that a child can have more than one biological father - in other words, that all men who have sex with a woman during her pregnancy contribute to the formation of her baby and may assume social responsibilities for the child after its birth. ......
A Backroads Guide to Small Museums and Other Local Treasures
Discover local history through less-traveled places that reflect the stories and communities of the region Cultural Sites of North Florida is your guide to 43 intriguing, little-known destinations in the northern part of the Florida panhandle, from Crystal River to Jacksonville. In this book, local experts Ronnie Lovler and Dixie Neilson ......
Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns
How northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s This book explores how a region in Cuba that was widely known as a site of labor subjugation became a hub of international solidarity in the 1920s and 1930s. In the early twentieth century, United States agricultural companies like ......
Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns
How northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s This book explores how a region in Cuba that was widely known as a site of labor subjugation became a hub of international solidarity in the 1920s and 1930s. In the early twentieth century, United States agricultural companies like ......
Unlikely to gratify those with strong views on either side of the political divide, Max Azicri's study provides an intelligent, scholarly response to the current questions posed by the Cuban Revolution. Covering the turbulent period of the 1990s, the book examines such issues as the impact on Cuba of the Soviet Union's collapse, the country's ......
The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
One of the twentieth century's most intriguing and complicated literary friendships was that between Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. In death, their reputations have reversed, but in the early 1940s Rawlings had already achieved wild success with her best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, while Hurston had ......
Tracing over 200 years of constitutional tradition in Florida As historical documents, constitutions represent a unique window into the economic, social, and political contexts of the people who debated, drafted, and ratified them. This comprehensive volume examines all constitutions drafted in Florida, from the territorial era to the most ......
