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Moss Bluff Rebel
'I was not willing, but finally agreed...' So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite …
Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency
Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, …
Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes
Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for …
America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
Selected by New York Times Book Review as one of their "Great Road Trip Books"NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year --NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N"America the Beautiful? is so …
The Transnationalism of American Culture
This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United …
Perspectives on Mass Communication History
This unique volume is based on the philosophy that the teaching of history should emphasize critical thinking and attempt to involve the student intellectually, rather than simply …
Modernizing Crime Statistics
To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approaches to prevent it a conceptual …
Islam, Politics, and Social Movements
Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete …
Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America...
The eighteen volumes of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America (reproduced in sixteen discrete books) contain the diaries and letters of Lutheran …
On Endings
What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which …
Israel-Palestine on Record
In this scathing analysis of Israel-Palestine coverage in the US media, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal the persistent ways the New York Times has ignored principles of …
Transnationalism and American Literature
What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The …