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Why do gardeners delight in the germination and growth of a seed? Why are our spirits lifted by flowers, our feelings of tension allayed by a walk in a forest or park? What other positive influences can green nature bring to humanity? In Green Nature/Human Nature Charles A. Lewis describes the psychological, sociological, and physiological ......
What can radical historians learn by engaging with new trends in world history? This special issue of the ''Radical History Review'' explores some of the possibilities created by the dialogue between world history and radical history - in the way we frame our research, narrate our stories, and teach our subjects. It also suggests how radical ......
This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times. The eldest daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Edith Maude Eaton was born in England in 1865. Her family moved to Quebec, where she was removed from school at age ten to help support her parents and twelve ......
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1996.In this lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings, Barre Toelken looks closely at riddle songs and other ambiguous folksongs, as well as the various ''ballad commonplaces.'' Ranging through metaphors such as weaving, plowing, plucking flowers, and walking in the dew, Toelken shows how each ......
Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96
The journal of Frances E. Willardnineteenth-century America's most renowned and influential womanhad been hidden away in a cupboard at the National WCTU headquarters, and its importance eluded Willard's biographers. Writing Out My Heart publishes for the first time substantial portions of the forty-nine volumes rediscovered in 1982. They open a ......
''Davis writes with an authority derived from his own perceptive studies of Illinois during the Jackson period. His account is balanced and critical while at the same time recognizing the value of Ford's book.'' -- Robert W. Johannsen, J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBoth cynical and ......
Those struggling to deal with the AIDS epidemic might learn valuable lessons from the earlier struggle of the U.S. to deal with syphilis. Here, Suzanne Poirier tells the story of the Chicago Syphilis Control Program launched in 1937 by the Chicago Board of Health and the U.S. Public Health Service and severely limited from the start because of the ......
Of ''Good Laws'' and ''Good Men'' reveals how a Quaker minority in the Delaware Valley used the law to its own advantage yet maintained the legitimacy of its rule. William Offutt, Jr., places legal processes at the center of this region s social history. The new societies established there in the late 1600s did not rely on religious conformity, ......
In a ground-breaking study of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant takes issue with current notions of Hurston as a feminist and earlier impressions of her as an intellectual lightweight who disregarded serious issues of race in American culture. Instead, Plant calls Hurston a ''writer of resistance'' who challenged the politics of domination both in ......
