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University Of South Florida Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Draft Business Plan, Mark I. Greenberg
University Of South Florida Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Draft Business Plan, Mark I. Greenberg
Mark I. Greenberg
Genocide and mass violence have become global threats to peace and security and a sad testament to the human condition. Almost a half million genocide and torture victims currently reside in the United States, with millions more suffering silently in other parts of the world. Recognizing an important opportunity to unify the University of South Florida’s wide-ranging Holocaust & genocide studies initiatives and to contribute to global education and action, the USF Libraries have created a global interdisciplinary center to better understand and prevent genocide. USF Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center will become an internationally recognized center for the …
Review Of: The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration And The Roots Of American Environmentalism, Mart A. Stewart
Review Of: The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration And The Roots Of American Environmentalism, Mart A. Stewart
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Aaron Sachs’s impressive study of Alexander von Humboldt’s influence on nineteenth-century American explorer-scientists reexamines terrain long familiar to historians of science and of exploration. It also advances a post-postcolonial perspective on Humboldt’s influence in the United States that is ultimately an argument about the history of environmental thought and activism in America in general.
Review Of: Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals And Transatlantic Liberal Reform, Johann N. Neem
Review Of: Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals And Transatlantic Liberal Reform, Johann N. Neem
History Faculty and Staff Publications
With Critical Americans, Leslie Butler has written a remarkable work that recovers a lost generation of American intellectuals. Tracing the intellectual friendship among George William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Nor ton from the 1840S through the beginning of the twentieth century, Butler makes a compelling case that we need to rethink the tradition of genteel liberalism. Too often, historians have dismissed the Mug wumps as backward-looking elites hostile to democracy. Butler recasts them not only as forward looking but also as committed to upholding the highest ideals of American democracy-critical engagement, an educated citizenry, …
Review Of: Bohemian Los Angeles And The Making Of Modern Politics, By Daniel Hurewitz, Kevin Allen Leonard
Review Of: Bohemian Los Angeles And The Making Of Modern Politics, By Daniel Hurewitz, Kevin Allen Leonard
History Faculty and Staff Publications
Since the publication of George Chauncey's Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture,and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York, 1994), a growing number of scholars have engaged in a lively debate about the history of homosexuality in the United States. In recent years, scholars have begun to explore the possibility that same-sex desire and behavior meant different things to people in different regions. The most articulate advocate of this position is western U. S. historian Peter Boag, the author of Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (Berkeley, 2003). Daniel Hurewitz's Bohemian Los Angeles …
"Implementing Ipods: A Success Story At The University Of South Florida Libraries Oral History Program, Mark I. Greenberg
"Implementing Ipods: A Success Story At The University Of South Florida Libraries Oral History Program, Mark I. Greenberg
Mark I. Greenberg
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Puritanism In America: Image Versus Reality, Kaitlin C. Gratton
Puritanism In America: Image Versus Reality, Kaitlin C. Gratton
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Puritanism in America is often misunderstood and misrepresented. Popular understanding of Puritan New England is filled with images of “Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, of clustered villages and white steepled churches, of pious founders and stern fathers, of tormented souls... and witchcraft mania.” ‘ The modem masses, if they think of it at all, accept this imagery as representative of early colonial conditions and the sources of these stereotypes are rarely questioned outside of academia. While many of these representations have taken hold of the American imagination in the post-revolutionary era, there is one that owes its existence to the …
Amateur Theatres And Amateur Publics In The Russian Republic, 1958-71, Susan Costanzo
Amateur Theatres And Amateur Publics In The Russian Republic, 1958-71, Susan Costanzo
History Faculty and Staff Publications
This examination of amateur theatres from 1957 to 1971 reveals that members of the educated public beyond the cultural elite were engaged in shaping the cultural landscape to suit their own preferences, if not necessarily state priorities. In their efforts to expand social criticism and stylistic innovation, 'amateur publics', consisting of amateurs and their supporters, invoked the term 'civic spirit' (grazhdanstvennost') to explain artistic heterodoxy as a form of loyal criticism of Soviet society. Amateurs also pursued formal and informal mechanisms to improve troupes' material conditions and status in order to secure permanent sites for those critical views.
Book Review - Strange Future: Pessimism And The 1992 Los Angeles Riots, By Min Hyoung Song, Kevin Allen Leonard
Book Review - Strange Future: Pessimism And The 1992 Los Angeles Riots, By Min Hyoung Song, Kevin Allen Leonard
History Faculty and Staff Publications
The Los Angeles riots of April 1992 had a deep impact on many residents of the United States, particularly Korean Americans and African Americans. In Strange Future, Min Hyoung Song, a professor of English at Boston College, analyzes a novel, a play, and two films, all of which examine the rioting in Los Angeles. All of these cultural productions are profoundly pessimistic. They draw upon the riots to imagine a troubling future for American society. These pessimistic works, however, do not foreclose the possibility of a future characterized by social and economic justice, Song insists.
The Price Of Rice: Market Integration In Eighteenth-Century China, Sui-Wai Cheung
The Price Of Rice: Market Integration In Eighteenth-Century China, Sui-Wai Cheung
East Asian Studies Press
The Price of Rice by Sui-wai Cheung investigates the grain tax, canal transportation, and market integration, to give a complete picture of the long-distance rice trade in China during the eighteenth century.