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Review Of Terra Schwerin Rowe, Of Modern Extraction: Experiments In Critical Petro-Theology, Rebecca Janzen Jan 2023

Review Of Terra Schwerin Rowe, Of Modern Extraction: Experiments In Critical Petro-Theology, Rebecca Janzen

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Terra Schwerin Rowe, Of Modern Extraction: Experiments in Critical Petro-theology (New York: T&T Clark, 2023), 200 pp., $115 (hbk), ISBN: 9780567708342.


Review Of Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape Of Migration: Mobility And Environmental Change On Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 To The Present, Rebecca Janzen Jan 2021

Review Of Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape Of Migration: Mobility And Environmental Change On Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 To The Present, Rebecca Janzen

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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020. Pp. 342. Softcover, $37.50 USD.


Review Of Gómez Unamuno, Aurelia. Entre Fuego, Memoria Y Violencia De Estado: Los Textos Literarios Y Testimoniales Del Movimiento Armado En México. A Contracorriente, 2020. 578 Pp., Rebecca Janzen Jan 2021

Review Of Gómez Unamuno, Aurelia. Entre Fuego, Memoria Y Violencia De Estado: Los Textos Literarios Y Testimoniales Del Movimiento Armado En México. A Contracorriente, 2020. 578 Pp., Rebecca Janzen

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Gómez Unamuno, Aurelia. Entre fuego, memoria y violencia de Estado: los textos literarios y testimoniales del movimiento armado en México. A Contracorriente, 2020. 578 pp.


Review Of Fly Already, Michael F. Russo Sep 2019

Review Of Fly Already, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo Aug 2019

Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Song For The Unraveling Of The World, Michael F. Russo Jun 2019

Review Of Song For The Unraveling Of The World, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of The History Of Living Forever, Michael F. Russo May 2019

Review Of The History Of Living Forever, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of The Altruists, Michael F. Russo Feb 2019

Review Of The Altruists, Michael F. Russo

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A book review of the debut novel by Andrew Ridker.


Book Review: Abortion Rights: For And Against, Michelle Oberman, Julia D. Hejduk Jan 2019

Book Review: Abortion Rights: For And Against, Michelle Oberman, Julia D. Hejduk

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Naïve Readings: Reveilles Political And Philosophic By Ralph Lerner (Review), Richard Benjamin Crosby Jan 2019

Naïve Readings: Reveilles Political And Philosophic By Ralph Lerner (Review), Richard Benjamin Crosby

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Naïve Readings is an enjoyable series of critical examinations of major historical texts written by a political historian who thinks he has discovered rhetorical analysis. On its dust jacket, Ralph Lerner’s latest book purports to offer “a new method of reading . . . a way toward deeper understanding of some of history’s most important—and most concealed—messages.” A tantalizing endorsement—one that befıts Lerner’s distinguished scholarly career. Lerner himself calls the book a “reconsideration” of “our current habits of reading” (2). So, we are led to expect a bold survey of the major thinkers he studies, from Franklin to Tocqueville to …


Review Of Lost And Wanted, Michael F. Russo Nov 2018

Review Of Lost And Wanted, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Such Good Work, Michael F. Russo Jan 2018

Review Of Such Good Work, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Spiritual Modalities: Prayer As Rhetoric And Performance, By William Fitzgerald (Review), Richard Benjamin Crosby Jan 2016

Spiritual Modalities: Prayer As Rhetoric And Performance, By William Fitzgerald (Review), Richard Benjamin Crosby

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Spiritual Modalities is arguably the first major work to take up the high theoretical questions of rhetoric and religion since Burke's Rhetoric of Religion published more than half a century ago. While a number of other studies deal with the relationship between religious discourse and other phenomena, such as politics, social movements, or particular rhetors and periods, Spiritual Modalities makes a strong claim to understand the primeval stuff of prayer's varied and complex discourses. As Burke writes: "we are to be concerned not directly with religion, but with the terminology of religion" (vi). So Fitzgerald is not concerned with prayer …


Political And Protest Theatre After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent, Lindsey Mantoan Jan 2014

Political And Protest Theatre After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent, Lindsey Mantoan

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Lindsey Mantoan reviews Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (edited by Jenny Spencer) for Theatre Topics.


Performance, Politics, And The War On Terror: "Whatever It Takes", Lindsey Mantoan Jan 2014

Performance, Politics, And The War On Terror: "Whatever It Takes", Lindsey Mantoan

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Lindsey Mantoan reviews Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror: "Whatever It Takes" (by Sara Brady) for TDR: The Drama Review.


Review Of America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story, Michael F. Russo Oct 2009

Review Of America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of A Brave Vessel: The True Tale Of The Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown And Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, Michael F. Russo Jun 2009

Review Of A Brave Vessel: The True Tale Of The Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown And Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of Three Victories And A Defeat: The Rise And Fall Of The First British Empire, 1714-1783, Michael F. Russo Feb 2009

Review Of Three Victories And A Defeat: The Rise And Fall Of The First British Empire, 1714-1783, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Michael F. Russo Jan 2009

Review Of From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Michael F. Russo

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Book Review Of Faiths Of The Founding Fathers, Davison M. Douglas Jan 2007

Book Review Of Faiths Of The Founding Fathers, Davison M. Douglas

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No abstract provided.


Review Of The Hanging Of Ephraim Wheeler : A Story Of Rape, Incest, And Justice In Early America, Michael F. Russo May 2003

Review Of The Hanging Of Ephraim Wheeler : A Story Of Rape, Incest, And Justice In Early America, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of The Culture Of Defeat : On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, Michael F. Russo Apr 2003

Review Of The Culture Of Defeat : On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of The Final Frontier, Michael F. Russo Feb 2003

Review Of The Final Frontier, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of In The Shadows Of War :An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France And The Camps Of Nazi Germany, Michael F. Russo Jan 2003

Review Of In The Shadows Of War :An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France And The Camps Of Nazi Germany, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Hitler And The Power Of Aesthetics, Michael F. Russo Dec 2002

Review Of Hitler And The Power Of Aesthetics, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of The Butcher's Tale: Murder And Anti-Semitism In A German Town, Michael F. Russo Jul 2002

Review Of The Butcher's Tale: Murder And Anti-Semitism In A German Town, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of A Storm In Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy And Triumph On The Western Front, Michael F. Russo Jun 2002

Review Of A Storm In Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy And Triumph On The Western Front, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of Tuxedo Park, Michael F. Russo May 2002

Review Of Tuxedo Park, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Sober Men And True: Sailor Lives In The Royal Navy, 1900-1945, Michael F. Russo Apr 2002

Review Of Sober Men And True: Sailor Lives In The Royal Navy, 1900-1945, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Blindfold And Alone : British Military Executions In The Great War, Michael F. Russo Jan 2002

Review Of Blindfold And Alone : British Military Executions In The Great War, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.