The process by which presidents decide whom to nominate to fill Supreme Court vacancies is obviously of far-ranging importance. But why is one individual selected from among a pool of presumably qualified candidates? This book uses presidential papers to reconstruct the politics of nominee selection.
This is a beautiful, tragic book.... We should be grateful that Ken Bugul found her way back at last to Africa and that she created this searing document as testimony of her suffering."- Booklist "A wise, lyrical account, superbly translated."- Publishers Weekly The subject of intense admiration--and not a little shock, when it was first published-- The Abandoned Baobab has consistently captivated readers ever since. The book has been translat...
Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.
Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.
Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders both with Mexico and with Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies that is diverse and geographically expansive.
Provides a context for the "Rubaiyat" that reveals how its composition was so often a collaborative enterprise. This book includes biographical and textual introductions, making use of FitzGerald's correspondence, to trace the history of the poem, and focuses on FitzGerald's motives for revising it.
Examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Presenting political and constitutional history, this book can serve as an introduction to issues of representation for students in the fields of political science, as well as history and law.
Analyzes the early years of the French Revolution to reveal the true difficulty of founding a liberal democracy in the midst of continual warfare, repeated coups d'etat, and endemic civil strife. This book highlights the role played by violence and fear in generating illiberal politics.
Covers the period 1 November 1778 through 14 January 1779. This title begins with George Washington at Fredericksburg, New York, watching New York City for signs that the British were about to evacuate North America. The British had different intentions, however, dispatching the first of several amphibious expeditions to invade the Deep South.
Staging a dialogue between Maryse Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, this work argues that Conde enacts a strategy of "critical incorporations" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits.
Staging a dialogue between Maryse Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, this work argues that Conde enacts a strategy of "critical incorporations" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits.
Offers a comparative study of child labor in eighteenth-century America. Focusing on Philadelphia, Boston, and Charleston, this title examines the work experiences of children and analyzes regional differences in child labor according to gender, race, and class.
Describes how Washington moved his army north from White Plains, New York, into new positions that ran from West Point to Danbury, Connecticut. His purpose in doing so was threefold: to protect his army, to protect the strategically important Hudson highlands, and to shore up the equally vital French fleet anchored at Boston.
Celebrates Jamaican poetry as an expression and extension of the island's rich spiritual traditions, offering fresh insights into some of the late twentieth century's most important and influential poetry. This work develops a critical language for the discussion of a wide range of Jamaican texts, both oral and written.
Beginning with a description of a typical middle-class interior in America - noting how its contents echo interiors described in literatures of the past, this work asks why certain features persist, despite radical changes in domestic life over the years.
