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Offers a rare first-person account of the landmark American naval expedition to Japan to establish commercial relations between the two countries. George Gideon's letters have been meticulously transcribed and annotated by the editors and are an invaluable primary historical source.

Looks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection.

Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable sub-discipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. This volume presents essays that explore this growing field.

Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.

In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. This book is an an anthology of the most important historical sources on presumptions and burdens of proof.

Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, "rewriting southern Jewish history". A New Vision of Southern Jewish Historyfeatures essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article.

The relationship between John Abbot and William Swainson - who never met in person - is explored in this volume. The book also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.

Gathers reminiscences - by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once - that span Kurt Vonnegut's entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with.

Presents stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary. Winner of FC2's Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.

An enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short stories that examines how women in society are confined by the limitations and expectations of pop culture, politics, advertising, fashion, myth, and romance.

Presents stories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves. Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.

In both its subject and its approach, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making is an account unlike any other of a city unlike any other - storied, inimitable, and thriving. G. Ward Hubbs has written a lively and enlightening bicentennial history of Tuscaloosa that is by turns enthralling, dramatic, disturbing, and uplifting.

The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual conventions employed by directors, and the ways trial films offered insights into the events of the late 20th century.

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class.

The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual conventions employed by directors, and the ways trial films offered insights into the events of the late 20th century.

Considers Alexander Hamilton both as a founder of the American republic, steeped in the currents of political philosophy and science of his day, and as its chief administrative theorist and craftsman, deeply involved in establishing the early institutions and policies that would bring his interpretation of the written Constitution to life.

Explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the twentieth century: 1900-1917, the formative period of city building; 1928-1941, the Great Depression; the mid 1950s, the lasting impacts of the New Deal; and 1962-1975, an intense period of local reform.

An invitation to voyage east leads Ihab Hassan to reflect on his origins in Egypt, on his home in America, and on his host country, Japan. Part memoir, part cultural perception, this volume records a journey, echoing the ""wanderers of eternity."" The result is not a book about ""them"", but rather a book about the author himself, living among others.

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.

An exploration of the nuclear arms race and the dangers arising with the advent of ""limited warfare."" These essays demonstrate that the making of foreign policy is immensely complicated, not subject to easy solution or to simple explanation.

Tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his musical apprenticeship under John T. "Fess" Whatley and his time touring with Sun Ra and Duke Ellington to his own inspiring work as an educator and bandleader. Central to this narrative is the often-overlooked story of Birmingham's unique jazz tradition and community.

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.

Beginning with an examination of Willa Cather's Virginia childhood and the southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, Joyce McDonald traces the effects of those influences in Cather's novels.

Highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. James Wynn analyses the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data.

Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This book is the most detailed study of the military aspects of the American intervention in Siberia ever undertaken, offering a multitude of details not available in any other book-length history.

A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers. Each chapter in this volume elaborates on a crucial aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald's depiction of American society, specifically through the lens of the social sciences that most influenced Fitzgerald's writing and thinking.

Analyses Jefferson Davis's public discourse, arguing that throughout his time as president of the Confederacy, Davis settled for short-term rhetorical successes at the expense of creating more substantive and meaningful messages for himself and his constituents.

Professor Franklin's book is guided by the assumption that Americans everywhere can find satisfaction in understanding the dynamics of social and political change, and they can be buoyed by the individual triumph of a person who beat the odds.

In tandem with an analysis of the basic purpose and rationale of urban planning, Peter Self discusses the achievements and failures of different types of planning authorities. Self argues that the urban region is at a political and organizational crossroads, as it must grapple with the problems of urban sprawl.

A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development. Central to understanding Alabama's territorial and early statehood years, the Federal Road was both a physical and symbolic thoroughfare that cut a swath of shattering change through Alabama.