This monograph is a study of poetry as an alternative way of seeing the world and of obtaining insights into realities that enable the reader to see the vast otherness that usually eludes. The process of creativity is discussed. The influences of other disciplines on the heightening of consciousness are described as well as methodologies of ......
The Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916 - 1919
Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst ......
This work, which introduces and provides the first major study and detailed analysis of Timberlake Wertenbaker's as a radical feminist dramatist. Professor Gormceli's research is also meant to provide a lucid, cogent and direct discussion of the contemporary British feminist theatre/drama and she has provided scholars and students of drama with ......
Twenty-Five Supreme Court Cases That Changed the United States
For over 30 years Professor Rose has been researching, writing and interpreting the Supreme Court cases that have played a unique role in changing American law, politics and history. Each of the twenty-five cases selected for review is preceded by a treatment of the historical, political and economic context during which the case is decided. The ......
Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James GordonFarrell and Zadie Smith
This is an intriguing and groundbreaking study by a scholar who not only is not British nor Indian but belongs to a society that has had its own imperial history as well as having a strong, revitalizing nationalist movement in the 20th c. It is through this prism that Dr Kapakli discusses, compares and contrasts Indian nationalism in three seminal ......
The Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788
D Burnham is the Dean of American historians working in the field of elections and is the author of many books; Thomas Ferguson is Professor of History, UMass, Boston and Louis Ferleger is Professor of History at Boston University. Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the ......
Interests, Emotions and Systemic Integration in the early European Economic Union, 1954-1966
The fact of post-war European integration is only half of an extraordinary story. The six founding countries were unique from their neighbours and from their own histories. After 1945, the Six recast their nationalisms not only to discard extremism, but also to adopt Europeanism - an emotive drive to create unprecedented institutions of European ......
This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their ""Book of Enlightenment"" (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, religion and literature. Coverage includes chapters on Yoruba ......
Anarchism stands as one of the most vital social movements of the twentieth century. Yet this large (and growing) contemporary movement remains obscured by public and scholarly misconceptions as to its aim and purpose. Lost in recent accounts are the creative and constructive practices undertaken daily by anarchist organizers seeking a world free ......
