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The Tenth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium examines what emerges when William Faulkner and James Baldwin are read together not simply as writers of the American experience, but as competing interpreters of race, history, modernity, violence, religion, and American identity.
"This groundbreaking book mounts an important challenge to the canonical narratives of nineteenth-century US architectural history. In place of traditional themes such as aesthetic innovation, technological progress, and cultural assimilation, Rewriting American Architecture foregrounds architecture's relationship to topics such as settler colonialism, transnationality, slavery, race, land, and labor. - Irene Cheng, author of The Shape of Utopia
“A stunningly original work that radically alters our assumptions about the making of citizens. Somerville deftly mines a wide array of sources to turn our focus from individuals seeking to naturalize to racial, settler, and sexual state practices that produce new citizens. Consistently surprising and illuminating—this book is a true tour de force.” - Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, UC Berkeley
How journalism, religious ambition, and urban life converged to shape one of nineteenth-century New York's most public moral dramas.
"Marino’s first book is a great contribution to the field of American sports history, and could be a valuable addition to any gender and sport syllabus. Her writing is lively, bringing to life a cast of colourful individuals whose contributions to American culture had been long forgotten." - (Sport in History)
“This deeply researched book tells the story of the reception of Soviet art in the United States, from the Russian Revolution to 1959. Bailey recontextualizes landmarks of art history and recovers forgotten artists, while showing how the US and the USSR worked for decades to make cultural opposites out of one another.” —Joshua Shannon, author of Looking for Tomorrow: Lessons from Art for the Time of Climate Change
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