Connecting the Caribbean with other island networks that have shared histories and legacies of empire While the Caribbean is often studied by focusing on individual islands and their pasts, Caribbean Archipelagoes proposes a new way of understanding this vital part of the world by placing it in conversation with other island chains, emphasizing ......
Connecting the Caribbean with other island networks that have shared histories and legacies of empire While the Caribbean is often studied by focusing on individual islands and their pasts, Caribbean Archipelagoes proposes a new way of understanding this vital part of the world by placing it in conversation with other island chains, emphasizing ......
Revealing Merce Cunningham's creative processes as inspiration for today's dancers and choreographers In this book, former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company detail the technique classes, rehearsal procedures, and compositional approaches that defined Cunningham's New York studio for more than sixty years. Through firsthand accounts ......
An introduction to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives of Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning trilogy Science fiction has long examined social, political, and moral issues through imagined worlds. This book uses Chinese author Cixin Liu's award-winning trilogy as a teaching tool to illustrate ......
Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian culture This volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the ......
The biography of a Honduran writer who defied conventions through her life and writing Clementina Suarez (1902-1991), the legendary matriarch of Honduran letters, scandalized Central American society with her bohemian lifestyle, her passionate woman-centered poetry, and her dedicated and unconventional promotion of art and literature. This first ......
A biography of an influential radical conservative who sought to unite the far right Willis Carto (1926-2015) was arguably the most important radical conservative in postwar America. Best known as the founder of the infamous Liberty Lobby, he has shaped the far right's position on such issues as immigration, globalization, multiculturalism, ......
An investigation of the widespread popularity of modernist architecture in midcentury Brazil During the mid-twentieth century, Brazil as a country seemed to be fascinated with modernism. Middle-class people would read about it in popular newspapers and journals, then go about designing their own homes in the modernist style, using distinctive ......
