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Grace Kennan Warnecke, daughter of famed US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, offers a telling memoir of her father and her family life lived throughout the tumultuous Cold War era and beyond. She presents an insider's perspective on important events during the twentieth century, and keenly recounts life as an American living in the Soviet Union at a time of great political uncertainty.

The Rise, Fall, and Potential Revival of Post-Industrial Rust Belt Cities, with a Focus on Cleveland, Ohio

Performance Art as a Source of Historical Truth in Mexico

Provides a study of the development of Latin American literary journalism and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America's literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states.

Electrification as an Engine of Change in the Modern South

The first thorough guide to the design and history of "Kentuck," designed in 1953-1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright, only seven miles from Fallingwater. Donald Hoffmann includes more than fifty photographs, drawings, diagrams, and a descriptive text to illustrate the structural peculiarities of the house based on the equilateral triangle.

When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries.

The Political, Public Significance of Temporality and How Time is Experienced in Contemporary Kazakhstan

The Unsuccessful 1905 Revolution and the Case of Russian-Ruled Poland

Recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during the Second World War, with a focus on the city of Zagreb. Ivo and Slavko Goldstein have grounded their study in extensive research in recently opened archives, additionally aided by the memories of survivors to supplement and enrich the interpretation of documents.

Contains nine essays that focus on "Paradise Lost", "Samson Agonistes", and selected major prose works such as "Areopagitica" and "The Second Defense of The English People".

Winner of the 1985 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. In Wetherell's stories a suburban retiree's assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them.

A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium.

Offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period.

This volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age.

Includes over 100 improvisational structures that Nagrin created with his company, the Workgroup, and has taught in dance classes and workshops in the USA. This text is aimed at those interested in dance history and Nagrin's philosophy, and at those who are interested in his techniques.

Shelton assembles the best of his previous work together with a selection of new poems.

Challenges to the Current Cultural Histories of the Neoliberal Period in Mexico and Brazil

The Story of US Relations with the Stroessner Dictatorship

A New Collection of Poetry from the Author of the Highly Praised INVENTING DIFFICULTY, and THE TWO YVONNES.

Analyses how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-ethnic empires that preceded their time.

A Comprehensive History of the Architectural Design Projects that Defined India

The Anxiety of Transparency in an Age of Electronic Innovation and Intrusion

Examining the Circulation, Commodification, and Organization of Healing Goods and Healing Knowledge

In this special issue, Cuban Studies 48 explores Afro-Cuban issues.

The Construction of Medical Privilege and a New Argument about Medical "Progress"

The Ending of Tyndall's Relationship with the Drummond Family, Disputes about His Glaciology Work, and More

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

Explores a Transatlantic News Economy That Circulated Information and Actively Shaped New Claims about the Red Planet

A Highly Nuanced Look at the Public Works Campaign of Gerardo Machado