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..". a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of greatinterest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." -- DrewFaustGender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slavemen's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both inreproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominentlyin revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizin...

(Durnil's attack on chlorine is) one of the single boldest environmentalpolicy ideas of the 1990's.... The message is that if someone as conventional and asconservative as Mr. Durnil can latch on to one of the great social transformationsof the American century, then so can every other Republican in the country." -- NewYork Times Book Review "This is a serious, thoughtful book. Ifthey would read it, the phoney 'conservatives' now performing in...

(FYI: Named one of the 100 Best Novels by the editors of the ModernLibrary, 7/20/98 New York Times, p. B1)"Booth Tarkington'sThe Magnificent Ambersons is a delightful novel. In addition, it is a view ofIndianapolis' evolution from a major marketing center to a great industrial city. Itadds a new dimension to one's understanding of the coming of the Industrial Age tothe State of Indiana." -- Herman B Wells, IndianaUniversity"With the tremendous...

Families and daily chores, one-room schools, church, and moralvalues.

This book is the third in the series, Memories of Hoosier Homemakers, which arises from an ongoing oral history project. This book deals with two of the subjects discussed in the collected interviews. The first is changes in transportation, as observed by the narrators, and the second is the impact of world events on the lives and values of the family.

This important book by a major international intellectual figure begins with four theoretical essays dealing with various aspects of interpretive theory. In this collection of essays, the author focuses on what he calls the limits of interpretation, or, as once noted in another context, 'the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation.' He states clearly at the outset his belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, ...

The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans spend much of our time in darkness and in dreams, and though we may prefer solid ground beneath our feet...

Masquerade is the most comprehensive anthology yet published of poetry byAmerican gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. It includesrepresentative poems from more than 100 writers from pre-colonial times to the endof the Second World War. The anthology begins with selections of anonymous textsfrom the oral traditions of Hawaii and Native America, followed by voodoo chants andcowboy songs (with a few limericks thrown in for good ...

Little Labels -- Big Sound celebrates 10 legendary record labels, their founders and the artists they developed, people who created original and enduring music on the tide of social change. From the 1920s through the 1960s, scores of small, independent record companies nurtured distinctly American music: jazz, blues, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll. These companies, run on shoestring budgets, were on the fringe of mainstre...

First published in 1959 and revised in 1968, this is a must-have book for the Louisville and Nashville Locomotive's many steam fans. With hundreds of vintage photographs, detailed rosters, and schematic drawings it is an invaluable resource for railroad buffs and historians. But even casual readers will be swept up in Prince's history of the growth and diversification of the L&N.,

Richard Taft is former Research Fellow at Trinity College, Hartford, and former Fulbright Fellow at the Hegel Archive of the Ruhr University in Germany.

..". a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies...every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should haveit." -- Early Keyboard Journal ..". a very perceptiveand informative guide... " -- Early Music ..". this bookis a must." -- The American Organist ..". invaluable andentertaining... " -- American Music Teacher ..". amongthe most important and accomplished studies on eighteenth-century performance. Itscompreh...

For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to Yiddish literature, the State of Israel, the condition of the American academy, and New York cultural and literary life. Best known for his prize-winning history of American Jewish immig...

I am immensely impressed... this particular Brigade needed a bookof its own and now it has one which is definitely first-rate.... A fine book."-- Bruce Catton"One of the '100 best books ever written onthe Civil War.'" -- Civil War Times Illustrated..".remains one of the best unit histories of the Union Army during the Civil War."-- Southern Historian..". The Iron Brigade is the title foranyone desiring complete information on this military uni...

Steven M. Cohen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Melton Center for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of American Assimilation or Jewish Revival? (Indiana University Press) and co-author (with Charles Liebman) of Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences. Arnold M. Eisen is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, a frequent speaker on issues related to contemporary Jewi...

Drawing on his own experiences of imagining, Edward S. Casey describes the essential forms that imagination assumes in everyday life. In a detailed analysis of the fundamental features of all imaginative experience, Casey shows imagining to be eidetically distinct from perceiving and defines it as a radically autonomous act, involving a characteristic freedom of mind. A new preface places Imagining within the context of current issues in philo...

The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, have had an enormous influence on contemporary U.S. films, from Star Wars to Taxi Driver.In John Ford Made Westerns, nine major essays by prominent scholars of Hollywood film situate the sound-era Westerns of John Ford w...

The Indiana Way traces the history of the Hoosier state from prehistoric times through the late twentieth century. The author argues that there had always been a distinctive Indiana way that rejects radical and extreme notions and movements and prefers the comfort and security that comes from a respect for the achievements of the generations that preceded.

There can be no doubt that German for Musicians will prove a realasset to every young singer and instrumentalist who needs to become acquainted withthe German language, written or spoken." -- DietrichFischer-DieskauGerman for Musicians is an intensive course forbeginners, a refresher for those with some German, and a reader for those who needto practice translating musical texts.

This book is about the boisterous beginnings of the American Pentecostalmovement and the ideas that defined that movement during those formative years. Itfollows a group of men who rethought the Christian faith in light of their newexperience of God. Thinking in the Spirit aims to provide scholars and generalreaders who know little or nothing about Pentecostalism with an introduction to theideas of the movement's most articulate early spokespe...