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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

by Robert O'Meally, Brent Edwards & Farah Griffin

Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands...


The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

by Xiaofei Kang

For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and...


Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life

by Victoria Rosner

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with...


Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan...and Beyond: A Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Text

by Robin Wood

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the...


Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Art Therapy and Eating Disorders: The Self as Significant Form

by Mury Rabin

Art Therapy and Eating Disorders is a step-by-step approach to a new and extremely promising technique for treating people with eating disorders -- children as well as adults, male and female sufferers alike...


Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law

Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny

by Reeva Spector Spector Simon

Why did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war against Great Britain, rejecting British and liberal values for those of a militaristic Germany? What impact did...


The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Conflict

by Stephen Saideman

Ethnic conflicts have created crises within NATO and between NATO and Russia, produced massive flows of refugees, destabilized neighboring countries, and increased the risk of nuclear war between Pakistan and...


Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

by Laura M. M. Rival

The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries...


Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity

by James Lastra

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception,...


Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890--1920

by Leila Fawaz, C. A. A. Bayly & Robert Ilbert

Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion...


New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century: Revitalizing and Broadening Youth Development

The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945

by Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper & Craig Mackenzie

From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid....


Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice

by Sibyl A. A. Schwarzenbach & Patricia Smith

Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole...


The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

by Jennifer Hecht

On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist....


Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement

by Ronald M. M. Davidson

Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism -- especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms -- the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure....


Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder

by Michele Pierson

Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters...


Topographies of Japanese Modernism

by Seiji Lippit

What happens when a critique of modernity -- a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world" -- is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the...


Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy

by Geraldine Heng

Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation....