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In a series of astute reflections on baseball histories, biographies, personal reminiscences, and fiction, this title explores how baseball writers have generated and sometimes challenged the narrative myths of the sport and its players. It looks at the shifting balance of romance and fact in standard baseball histories.

Even after 100 years, this is a captivating fable - witty and biting - of a Thomas Edison-like inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Hadaly, and the lovelorn aristocrat who falls for the manmade perfect woman who is conveniently adjustable so he may make her at his will to his taste and social needs.

Looks at works of modern literature, visual art, music, film, theater, and architecture to arrive at an assessment of what parody is and what it does. This title identifies parody as one of the major forms of modern self-reflexivity, one that marks the intersection of invention. It discusses the remarkable range of intent in modern parody.

Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. This work explores African writing and identity in France from the early negritude movement and the founding of the Presence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s.

Challenging the prevailing notion that white workers were the main source of resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South, the author explores the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920.

Collects all the tales of this master of the uncanny, the unnerving, and the terrifying. This book includes author's stories that reflect his professed method of "writing as if the author were firmly impressed with the truth, yet astonished at the immensity of the wonders he related."

Tracing "garage" and "psychedelic" rock from the 50's through the sixties, this book unfolds the history and the sonic structures of some of rock's core repertoire

On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten 'with a pen of fire'. This study considers the mythic proportions of the Great Chicago Fire as the city reshaped its own tragedy into an archetype of the modern struggle against adversity. It attempts to resolve the city's conflicted identity into a unity.

A volume of writings by one of the twentieth century's great musical iconoclasts. This book includes two journals kept by Harry Partch, one while wandering the West Coast during the Depression and the other while hiking the rugged northern California coastline. It also includes essays and discussions by Partch of his own compositions.

An autobiography of Phineas T Barnum that immortalizes the showman who hoodwinked customers into paying to hear the reminiscences of a woman presented as George Washington's 161-year-old nurse, the impresario who brought Jenny Lind to America and toured Europe with General Tom Thumb, and the grand entrepreneur of the American Museum of New York.

Intends to interpret the enduring legacy of the southern textile industry, company-owned mill villages, and the union struggles of the 1930s. Focusing on Spartanburg County, South Carolina, this title reveals a complex meshing of community ties and traditions with the goals and ideals of unionism.

A novel that features Augusto Perez, the pampered son of a recently deceased mother; the deceitful, scheming Eugenia, whom Augusto obsessively idealizes; and, Augusto's dog Orfeo, who gives a funeral oration upon his master's death.

Uses biographies to describe women's transformation from serious rodeo athletes to beauty queens and their successful struggle to regain their place, and respect, as the competitive athletes that they are.

Through the experiences of performers, composers, and ethnomusicologists working in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, this title explores how the uses and descriptions of music shift in response to rapid political, economic, or technological change.

"Hollywood Speaks is   a remarkable book. Schuchman's inquiry into how deafness has been treated in   movies provides us with yet another window onto social history in addition to   a fresh angle from which to view Hollywood. Moreover, he joins the ranks of   the few scholars who have made use of Hollywood studio archives."   -- Thomas Cripps, author of Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American   Film, 1900-1942 Â

Assesses Peckinpah's stature as a major artist and details the unbelievably shoddy treatment afforded his films by hostile producers and studio hit men

Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change.

Focusing on the disasters of the 1980s, this book examines how culture is reconstructed after disaster through victims' stories, media coverage, and official efforts to restore faith in technology. It explores the debates that followed these disasters, as government agencies, corporations, and local communities fought to control their meaning.

From fiddle tunes to folk ballads, from banjos to blues, traditional music thrives in the remote mountains and hollers of West Virginia. "Goldenseal" magazine has given its readers intimate access to the lives and music of folk artists from across this pivotal state. This title gathers together some of the best of "Goldenseal".

Phylogenetic Systematics, first published in 1966, marks a turning point in the history of systematic biology. Willi Hennig's influential synthetic work, arguing for the primacy of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system in biology, generated significant controversy and opened possibilities for evolutionary biology that are still being explored.

Documents the experiences of African Americans in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island - towns that provided a recurring season of expanded employment opportunities, enhanced social life, cosmopolitan experience, and, in a good year, enough money to last through the winter.

Reveals the breadth of working-class black experiences and activities in Cleveland and the extent to which these were shaped by traditions and values brought from the South. The author shows how migrants' moves north established complex networks of kin and friends and infused the city with a highly visible southern African-American culture.

A case study of college football. It looks at the birth of bigtime college sport, showing how gridiron glory and scandal were prefigured in Chicago's football industry of the early twentieth century, presided over by the brilliant, combative, saintly, but very human Amos Alonzo Stagg.

A collection of poems that turns to acknowledge the poets own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William Wordsworth, Vincent Van Gogh, and the Wild Woman. This is the seventh collection of the poet.

"Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's laboring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. This title investigates how administrative agencies and federal courts enforced immigration laws.

Tells how members of the politically inexperienced minority Japanese American group organized themselves at the grass-roots level, gathered political support, and succeeded in obtaining a written apology from the president of the United States and monetary compensation in accordance with the provisions of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.

This provocative study shows that zoos tell us as much about humans as they do about animals. Through observations based on visits to zoos and conversations with zoo owners and keepers all over the world, the authors suggest that, while animals may not need zoos, urban societies seem to. A new preface takes note of dramatic changes in the perceived role of zoos that have occurred since the book's original publication.

A translation into English of Nietzsche's interpretation.

A study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule. It provides a counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South.