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Engages the traditional resources of lyric poetry in an exploration of historical and cultural landscapes ravaged by imponderable events. This book sifts the psychological residue that accumulates in the wake of unspeakable acts and so negotiates that terrain between the banality of language and the need to stand witness and to speak.

Tells the story of the author's fourteen-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act. This work aims to delineate the ways the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations fought to preserve government secrecy, and highlight the legal strategies adopted by those who have challenged it.

This study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, includes an epilogue which brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date in 2000. The bibliography and index have been revised and expanded for this edition.

Chronicles one of the twentieth century's most dynamic personalities and one of the nation's greatest social struggles. This title conveys Martin Luther King, Jr's call for racial justice and his faith in the power of nonviolence to engender a major transformation of American society.

Focuses on the evolution of American spirituality over the years. This title uses interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, define their spiritual journeys. It explains the changes in personal spirituality that have come to shape our religious life.

This text examines the ways the great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for the consumer society. It argues for the linking of the high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and for teaching popular culture to understand the books contexts.

This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history.

A collection that includes stories, legends, and songs of the indigenous tribes. It also includes Mother Lode tales by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, the first signs of California poetry, the rise of narrative by California women, the nature writing of John Muir and Mary Austin, and some of the earliest prose from writers of Asian background.

In a comprehensive treatment of Salvadoran immigration, this text gives a detailed account of the inner workings of the networks by which immigrants leave their homes in Central America to start new lives in the Mission District of of San Francisco.

Pilgrims during the fourth and fifth centuries AD often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land. This is a study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics.

The 'Businessmen's Revival' was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, this book gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance.

Presents an analysis of Whitman's quest for happiness. This book explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. It maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic 19th century American and in proposing to heal national ills, Whitman was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well.

Expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. This title covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining statistical evidence with many other documentary sources to tease out the story behind the figures.

On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, beginning an era of political repression. This title takes us behind the Pinochet regime's wall of censorship, silence, and propaganda and provides an inside look at a brutal dictatorship.

Explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history.

Tells how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. This book draws a portrait of the individual - a social person who mingled within the community; addressed the challenges of poverty, illness, aging, and death; possessed friends, enemies, and lovers; and prayed and responded within a religious community.

Deals with the Mediterranean family - the extended family, marriage (rituals, economics, social and cultural safeguards), the Mediterranean household, widowhood, divorce, remarriage, and the world of women.

A study that looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless. It examines volunteers at two charities in the USA that compares their attitudes and thoughts towards their work. It reveals the complicated and contradictory politics of caring for the poor in America.

Discusses dozens of classic and contemporary films ranging from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Terms of Endearment", from "Stagecoach" to "Reservoir Dogs". This book studies the use of dialogue in American film. It shows why dialogue has been neglected in the analysis of narrative film.

A study of festivals in two American communities that launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, it compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York.

Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a history of earthquakes and a guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State's spectacular scenery. He examines the mythology, culture, social implications, politics and science of earthquakes.

The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. This title offers a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present.

Challenges conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. This book shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. It develops ideas about erotic, beauty, and older women.

In this assessment of the field of compartive religion, this text surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavour and those who affirm it. It brings together leading historians of religion from a range of backgrounds and vantage points.

Through the voices of musicians who performed on L.A.'s Central Avenue from the 1920s to the early 1950s, this text provides a picture of the Avenue's place in American musical history. Included are firsthand reminiscences by and about jazz legends such as Charlie Parker and Art Farmer.

Provides a historical and ethnographic account of how Jerusalem has become the battleground for conflicts both within and between the Israeli and Palestinian communities. This title examines the relation between Zionism and Judaism and between Palestinian nationalism and Islam.

This text explores changes to the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender in post-Mao China. The book examines how gender roles have been redefined by the economic and institutional changes that arose from this era of economic market reform.

This edition of the letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson has been expanded and revised to include 59 letters discovered after the book's original publication in 1979. The additional letters and new annotations clarify the correspondence and illuminate the writers' friendship.

Examines the history of troubled relations on and around Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. This book traces the origins of racial tension between Native Americans and whites to federal laws themselves, showing how the courts have created opposing political interests along race lines.

Based on a chilling historical event, this novel is a tale of the arrogance of colonizers, rape, guilt, punishment and retribution. It is set on the Southern California coast during the early 19th century when Catholic missionaries rounded up all the local Indians.