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Unruly Women — Boyle
Unruly Women — Boyle
$55.00
By Margaret E. BoyleAssistant Professor of Romance Languages In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives...
Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger
$125.00
By Vyjayanthi SelingerAssociate Professor of Asian Studies The 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 author...
Making Families Through Adoption — Riley & VanVleet
$27.00
By Nancy E. Riley, Professor of Sociology and Krista E. Van Vleet, Associate Professor of Anthropology This text provides both a comprehensive look at adoption practices in the United States and in other cultures, providing insights into the practices and ideology of kinship and family. The subject of adoption allows a window into discussions o...
Horror after 9/11 — Briefel
Horror after 9/11 — Briefel
$55.00
Edited by Aviva Briefel, Professor of English and Cinema Studiesand Sam J. Miller Horror films have exploded in popularity since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, many of them breaking box office records and generating broad public discourse. These films have attracted A-list talent and earned award nods, while at the same time becoming...
Sober Consent of the Heart — McKeen
$30.00
Joseph McKeen, First President of BowdoinCompiled and edited by Robert B. Gregory It is impossible to spend any time in the Bowdoin chapel and not be impressed with the influence that Bowdoin's first president Joseph McKeen continues to have on the life of the college. Those few words about the "common good" taken from his inaugural message whi...
Red to Green — Henry
Red to Green — Henry
$25.50
By Laura A. Henry John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor, Government And Legal Studies Red to Green 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 mobil...
Spirits of the Place — Holt
Spirits of the Place — Holt
$27.00
By John Clifford Holt William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities in Religion & Asian Studies Spirits of the Place 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 -...
Political Economy & States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch
$99.95
By Aaron Kitch Associate Professor of English 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. Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England seeks to address that oversight by demonstratin...
Bad Girls Go Everywhere — Scanlon
$16.00
By Jennifer Scanlon Professor of Gender and Women's Studies When reviewing the great figures of feminism, few would call to mind the creator of the Cosmo Girl, but as Jennifer Scanlon argues in her fascinating biography Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan and diva of the New York magazine ...
Monstrous Society — Collings
Monstrous Society — Collings
$61.50
By David Collings Professor of English Monstrous Society 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 inf...
The Deceivers — Briefel
The Deceivers — Briefel
$41.95
By Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies 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 withi...
Remembrance of Things to Come
$15.00
By Edward Pols This slim and beautiful volume of poetry by Edward Pols transcends its setting in Maine, Italy, and the Europe of World War II, to speak of love and loss, life and death, and the inescapable memories of war. It is a book a thoughtful reader will come back to again and again, finding something new to contemplate in each reading. Th...