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{"id":161299739,"title":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die — Howard 1859","handle":"we-are-in-his-hands-whether-we-live-or-die-the-letters-of-brevet-brigadier-general-charles-henry-howard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by David K. Thomson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war.  But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard \u003cstrong\u003e[Bowdoin Class of 1859]\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War.  Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859.  After graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860.  While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career.  The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run.  All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater, including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign.  He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg.  Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict.  By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908.  His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer.  Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced.  Howard's letters expose the greater thoelogical and metaphysical dilemas of the war faced by so many on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-09-30T15:47:26-04:00","created_at":"2013-09-30T16:18:40-04:00","vendor":"Algonquin Books","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Civil War","History"],"price":5200,"price_min":5200,"price_max":5200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":369700961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC225-Howard","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die — Howard 1859","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":8,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781572339439","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard","id":7515939143769,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by David K. Thomson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war.  But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard \u003cstrong\u003e[Bowdoin Class of 1859]\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War.  Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859.  After graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860.  While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career.  The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run.  All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater, including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign.  He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg.  Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict.  By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908.  His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer.  Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced.  Howard's letters expose the greater thoelogical and metaphysical dilemas of the war faced by so many on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":159700075,"title":"Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger","handle":"authorizing-the-shogunate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Vyjayanthi Selinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/vselinge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAssociate Professor of Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors.  How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts?  This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e corpus through ritual that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical realities.  Artifacts of material culture likewise provide the social and political codes to authenticate warrior power and manage its violence.  Through its focus on ritual and material practices, this book offers a new perspective on how texts from fourteenth century Japan harnessed symbolic understandings of authority to evoke order and contain rupture.  Equally significant is its analysis of the \u003cem\u003eGenpei jōsuiki\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e variant that played a critical role in the retrospection of medieval Japan through the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-09-23T12:02:00-04:00","created_at":"2013-09-23T12:02:25-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":12500,"price_min":12500,"price_max":12500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":12500,"compare_at_price_min":12500,"compare_at_price_max":12500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":365854821,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA223","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":12500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":12500,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789004248106","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Authorizing the Shogunate by Vyjayanthi Selinger","id":20239455256665,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Vyjayanthi Selinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/vselinge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAssociate Professor of Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors.  How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts?  This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e corpus through ritual that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical realities.  Artifacts of material culture likewise provide the social and political codes to authenticate warrior power and manage its violence.  Through its focus on ritual and material practices, this book offers a new perspective on how texts from fourteenth century Japan harnessed symbolic understandings of authority to evoke order and contain rupture.  Equally significant is its analysis of the \u003cem\u003eGenpei jōsuiki\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e variant that played a critical role in the retrospection of medieval Japan through the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":32910722,"title":"Red to Green — Henry","handle":"red-to-green-environmental-activism-in-post-soviet-russia","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Laura A. Henry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/l\/lhenry\/\"\u003eJohn F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor, \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cnobr\u003eGovernment And Legal Studies\u003c\/nobr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRed to Green\u003c\/span\u003e goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that determine the political influence of grassroots movements.  In an organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization theory to the Russian case, Laura Henry details what grassroots organizations in Russia actually do, how they use the limited economic and political opportunities that are available to them, and when they are able to influence policy and political practice.  Drawing on her in-depth interviews with activists, Henry illustrates how green organizations have pursued their goals by \"recycling\" Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks and using them in combination with transnational ideas, resources, and partnerships.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2018-03-28T10:42:01-04:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T11:05:24-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2550,"price_min":2550,"price_max":2550,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2495,"compare_at_price_min":2495,"compare_at_price_max":2495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77672882,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF174-Henry","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Red to Green — Henry","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":2550,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780801476419","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Red to Green by Laura Henry","id":20239812001881,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":550,"width":362,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820","width":362}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Laura A. Henry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/l\/lhenry\/\"\u003eJohn F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor, \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cnobr\u003eGovernment And Legal Studies\u003c\/nobr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRed to Green\u003c\/span\u003e goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that determine the political influence of grassroots movements.  In an organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization theory to the Russian case, Laura Henry details what grassroots organizations in Russia actually do, how they use the limited economic and political opportunities that are available to them, and when they are able to influence policy and political practice.  Drawing on her in-depth interviews with activists, Henry illustrates how green organizations have pursued their goals by \"recycling\" Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks and using them in combination with transnational ideas, resources, and partnerships.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

{"id":32903072,"title":"Spirits of the Place — Holt","handle":"spirits-of-the-place","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy John Clifford Holt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jholt\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWilliam R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities in Religion \u0026amp; Asian Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSpirits of the Place\u003c\/span\u003e is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia.  Most often studied as a part of Thai, Vietnamese, or Khmer history, Laos remains a terra incognita to most Westerners -- and to many people living throughout Asia as well.  John Holt's new book brings this fascinating nation into focus.  With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power -- from royalty to democracy to communism -- has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and relgious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.\u003cbr\u003e - From the hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2015-11-24T10:37:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:52:23-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2700,"price_min":2700,"price_max":2700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2700,"compare_at_price_min":2700,"compare_at_price_max":2700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77651982,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF169","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Spirits of the Place — Holt","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":2700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780824836573","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Spirits of the Place by John Holt","id":7516074967129,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy John Clifford Holt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jholt\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWilliam R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities in Religion \u0026amp; Asian Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSpirits of the Place\u003c\/span\u003e is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia.  Most often studied as a part of Thai, Vietnamese, or Khmer history, Laos remains a terra incognita to most Westerners -- and to many people living throughout Asia as well.  John Holt's new book brings this fascinating nation into focus.  With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power -- from royalty to democracy to communism -- has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and relgious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.\u003cbr\u003e - From the hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

{"id":32902572,"title":"Tales of Bowdoin — Mills '72","handle":"tales-of-bowdoin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSome Gathered Fragments and Fancies of Undergraduate Life in the Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCollected by John Clair Minot, class of 1896, and Donald Francis Snow, class of 1901\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Preface by Barry Mills '72,\u003cbr\u003e 14th President of Bowdoin College\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis classic volume contains stories of student life in the late 19th Century at one of America's oldest colleges, Bowdoin College.  Published in 1901, the stories reveal a bygone era and many have the ring of true experience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Read about famous American professors and student pranks and prejudices, about athletics and academics as they once existed.  Not only are these fascinating and often amusing portraits of student life, but they also contain scenes of Maine life more than 100 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Well illustrated, these stories include writings of Bowdoin presidents William DeW. 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Hyde and Kenneth C.M. Sills and by U.S. House Speaker Thomas B. Reed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new edition features a preface by Barry Mills, 14th president of Bowdoin College.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback, with black and white illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscounts are not available on this item.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":32900542,"title":"Political Economy \u0026 States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch","handle":"political-economy-states-of-literature-in-early-modern-england","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Aaron Kitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/akitch\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much of the historicist criticism of the past few decades has ignored the shaping influence that an emerging discourse of trade exercised on the literature of early modern England.  \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePolitical Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England\u003c\/span\u003e seeks to address that oversight by demonstrating that subjects like commerce and credit are treated thoughtfully by a range of canonical authors writing between 1570 and 1620, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Jonson.  Rather than interpreting these texts as evidence of the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a Marxist critic might, or invoking a catch-all abstraction like \"social energy\" as a New Historicist might, Kitch draws on his impressive reading in a range of subjects -- from the herring fisheries to bills of exchange -- to interpret the economic metaphors and assumptions of early modern authors in light of the local economic contexts that he carefully reconstructs.  By examining a wide range of literary forms, Kitch also invites us to ask whether we can speak of the distinct economic values of particular genres like comedy or epyllion.\u003cbr\u003e - Blair Hoxby, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:45:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:45:37-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":9995,"price_min":9995,"price_max":9995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":9995,"compare_at_price_min":9995,"compare_at_price_max":9995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77646132,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF166-Kitch","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Political Economy \u0026 States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":9995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":9995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780754667568","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England by Aaron Kitch","id":20239815147609,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.659,"height":475,"width":313,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965"},"aspect_ratio":0.659,"height":475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965","width":313}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Aaron Kitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/akitch\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much of the historicist criticism of the past few decades has ignored the shaping influence that an emerging discourse of trade exercised on the literature of early modern England.  \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePolitical Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England\u003c\/span\u003e seeks to address that oversight by demonstrating that subjects like commerce and credit are treated thoughtfully by a range of canonical authors writing between 1570 and 1620, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Jonson.  Rather than interpreting these texts as evidence of the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a Marxist critic might, or invoking a catch-all abstraction like \"social energy\" as a New Historicist might, Kitch draws on his impressive reading in a range of subjects -- from the herring fisheries to bills of exchange -- to interpret the economic metaphors and assumptions of early modern authors in light of the local economic contexts that he carefully reconstructs.  By examining a wide range of literary forms, Kitch also invites us to ask whether we can speak of the distinct economic values of particular genres like comedy or epyllion.\u003cbr\u003e - Blair Hoxby, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}

{"id":32898932,"title":"Monstrous Society — Collings","handle":"monstrous-society","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy David Collings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/d\/dcolling\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMonstrous Society\u003c\/span\u003e problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/span\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a 'nonmodern' mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force.\u003cbr\u003e -From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:44-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":6150,"price_min":6150,"price_max":6150,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6150,"compare_at_price_min":6150,"compare_at_price_max":6150,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640962,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF150-Collings","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Monstrous Society — Collings","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":6150,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6150,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780838757208","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Monstrous Society by David Collings","id":20239817474137,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy David Collings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/d\/dcolling\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMonstrous Society\u003c\/span\u003e problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/span\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a 'nonmodern' mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force.\u003cbr\u003e -From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}

{"id":32898902,"title":"Brunswick and Bowdoin College","handle":"brunswick-and-bowdoin-college","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bowdoin is the quintessential New England college, and Brunswick is the quintessential New England town. Bowdoin has its stately buildings and trees, while Brunswick is blessed with a charming downtown featuring a pedestrian-friendly Maine Street of dramatic proportions. Chartered in the late 1700s, Bowdoin has been inextricably linked to the town of Brunswick for more than 200 years. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College\u003c\/span\u003e features vintage postcard views dating from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, providing an extraordinary visual reference for a time of enormous technological and social change, when Maine Street was transformed from a rutted dirt road to a paved thoroughfare, stables were supplanted by garages, buildings were constructed and razed, and merchants came and went.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen, an avid postcard collector, grew up in Brunswick in the 1960s. The first acquisition in her extensive Brunswick and Bowdoin collection, a printed view of early-1900s Maine Street, was purchased nearly 30 years ago and is included in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:30:58-04:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:42-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Books","History"],"price":2499,"price_min":2499,"price_max":2499,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640932,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBI148-Coursen","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Brunswick and Bowdoin College","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":2499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0738562378","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Postcard History Series: Brunswick and Bowdoin College by Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen","id":1468072025,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba148-coursen-brunswick.jpeg?v=1594757743","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bowdoin is the quintessential New England college, and Brunswick is the quintessential New England town. Bowdoin has its stately buildings and trees, while Brunswick is blessed with a charming downtown featuring a pedestrian-friendly Maine Street of dramatic proportions. Chartered in the late 1700s, Bowdoin has been inextricably linked to the town of Brunswick for more than 200 years. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College\u003c\/span\u003e features vintage postcard views dating from the early 1900s through the late 1940s, providing an extraordinary visual reference for a time of enormous technological and social change, when Maine Street was transformed from a rutted dirt road to a paved thoroughfare, stables were supplanted by garages, buildings were constructed and razed, and merchants came and went.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen, an avid postcard collector, grew up in Brunswick in the 1960s. The first acquisition in her extensive Brunswick and Bowdoin collection, a printed view of early-1900s Maine Street, was purchased nearly 30 years ago and is included in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrunswick and Bowdoin College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

{"id":32898562,"title":"The Deceivers — Briefel","handle":"the-deceivers-art-forgery-identity-in-the-nineteenth-century","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e By Aviva Briefel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/abriefel\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English and Cinema Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions, they were fascinated by its power to shape the human and object worlds and adoped a language of art forgery to articulate a link between the making of fakes and the making of selves. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e explores the intersections among artistic crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Literary texts joined more specialized artistic discourses in describing the various identities associated with art forgery: the forger, the copyist, the art expert, the dealer, the restorer. Built into new characters were assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and nationality that themselves would come to be presented in a language of artistic authenticity. Aviva Briefel places special emphasis on the gendered distinction between male forgers and female copyists. \"Copying,\" a benign occupation when undertaken by a woman, became \"forgery,\" laden with criminal intent, when performed by men. Those who could successfully produce, handle, or detect spurious things and selves were distinguished from others who were incapable of distinguishing the authentic from the artistic and human forgeries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through close reading of literary narratives such as \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTrilby\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/span\u003e as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e reveals the identities -- both authentic and fake -- that emerged from the Victorian culture of forgery.\u003cbr\u003e - From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:32:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:32:30-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":4195,"price_min":4195,"price_max":4195,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3995,"compare_at_price_min":3995,"compare_at_price_max":3995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640402,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF141","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Deceivers — Briefel","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":4195,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780801444609","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Deceivers by Aviva Briefel","id":7516078014553,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e By Aviva Briefel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/abriefel\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English and Cinema Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions, they were fascinated by its power to shape the human and object worlds and adoped a language of art forgery to articulate a link between the making of fakes and the making of selves. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e explores the intersections among artistic crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Literary texts joined more specialized artistic discourses in describing the various identities associated with art forgery: the forger, the copyist, the art expert, the dealer, the restorer. Built into new characters were assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and nationality that themselves would come to be presented in a language of artistic authenticity. Aviva Briefel places special emphasis on the gendered distinction between male forgers and female copyists. \"Copying,\" a benign occupation when undertaken by a woman, became \"forgery,\" laden with criminal intent, when performed by men. Those who could successfully produce, handle, or detect spurious things and selves were distinguished from others who were incapable of distinguishing the authentic from the artistic and human forgeries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through close reading of literary narratives such as \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTrilby\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/span\u003e as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e reveals the identities -- both authentic and fake -- that emerged from the Victorian culture of forgery.\u003cbr\u003e - From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}