A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry. ?For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a document
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height.?Fair
The first collection of critical essays on Maus, the searing account of one Holocaust survivor's experiences rendered in comic book form.In 1992, Art Spiegelmans two-volume illustrated work Maus: A Su
Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized politica
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.?During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and
The legacy of the Negro, free and slave, in the War for Southern Independence, says Brewer (d. 1974), has too often been ignored by the historian. He documents the extensive involvement of the Virgini
The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large fami
This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to i
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories. The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, amo
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American
The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additi
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions a
Cemis are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Tainos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or m
The exhaustive, definitive study of Southern attempts to gain international support for the Confederacy by leveraging the cotton supply for European intervention during the Civil War. Using previously
For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age recounts Twain’s fascination with, and participation in, America’s spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century and demonstrates how his writing
At the Moon's Inn, first published in 1941, provides a fictional account of De Soto's famous Spanish expedition to La Florida and through the southeastern United States between 1539 and 1543. The nove
This work explores Edith Wharton’s career–long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts&md
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre sc
