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A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe.
Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America
Examines landscape, harborscape, and seascape paintings by Fitz H. Lane (1804-1865) that comment on agriculture, extraction industries, settlement patterns, trade, and the political economy of nineteenth-century coastal New England.
This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public ......
A collection of eleven essays on the career and texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the delicate balance in Fitzgerald's career between money and literary respectability.
The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women's rights movements and creation of thriving communities of Friends in the Global South to the large-scale post-World War I humanitarian relief efforts of the ......
In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in historyt. From mortgages to student loans, from credit card bills to US deficit spending, debt is widespread and increasing. Drawing on scholarship from economics, accounting, and critical rhetoric and social theory, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins critiques debt ......
A collection of essays on ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic linguistics, reexamining the position of ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic phylum and the closeness of its connections with languages that were spoken in Africa and the Ancient Near East.
A collection of updated English editions and translations of 169 historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay tablets from Kuyunjik, the citadel mound of Nineveh.
