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First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe
by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers
of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary
representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth
century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences
in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from
and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three
primary themes. "Architectures", "Encounters" and "Rhythms" make
reference to three axes of city life: material space, human
encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights
cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of
"urban fantastic" within and across the European traditions studied
here.
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery
in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of
African Americans to the country's colleges and universities.
Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in
1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex.
Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at
two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New
York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight
for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however,
color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new
generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward
African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence
in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination against
Blacks grew increasingly common by the 1880s. John Frederick Bell's
Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform
at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications
for the progress of racial equality in nineteenth-century America.
Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and
promotional materials, Bell uses case studies to interrogate how
abolitionists and their successors put their principles into
practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments
illustrates a tragic irony of interracial reform, as the
achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites
to divest from the project of racial pluralism.
This book explores the history of higher education in Thailand, and
the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time.
Classed as a developing country, Thailand has implemented
wide-reaching legislative and regulatory responses relating to the
purpose, character of and access to higher education. The authors
investigate these changes by interrogating the mechanisms and
reciprocities that have operated at the international level to
trigger this decision making, and acknowledge that these changes
have often run up against long-standing cultural norms and
ideologies. Thailand has a highly stratified society, and maintains
a strong commitment to the preservation of Thai identity and
traditional values: tensions and pressures are likely to arise when
history, culture and ideology are not aligned with political
decree. Importantly, the push and pull between equity and
excellence within the education system are likely to lie at the
heart of those tensions.
On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an
Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable
triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's
achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans
have gone unheralded. From individual athletes, teams, and events,
it is clear that the "Vanishing Americans" are not vanishing-but
they are sadly overlooked. The Native American Identity in Sports:
Creating and Preserving a Culture not only includes, but goes
beyond the great achievements of Billy Mills to note numerous other
instances of Native American accomplishment and impact on sports.
This collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to
shaping and expressing Native American identity-from the attempt of
the old Indian Schools to "Americanize" Native Americans through
sport to the "Indian mascot" controversy and what it says about the
broader public view of Native Americans. Additional essays explore
the contemporary use of the traditional sport Toka to combat
obesity in some Native American communities, the Seminoles'
commercialization of alligator wrestling-a "Native" sport that was,
in fact, only developed as a sport due to interest from
tourists-and much more. The contributions to this volume not only
tell the story of Native Americans' participation in the world of
sports, but also how Native Americans have changed and enriched the
sports world in the process. For anyone interested in the deep
effect sport has on culture, The Native American Identity in Sports
is an indispensable read.
Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but
until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that
shape how non-western countries use music for international
relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by
scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates
music's role in international relations worldwide. Specifically,
this book offers "insider" views from expert contributors writing
about music as a part of cultural diplomacy initiatives in
Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Japan, China, India, Vietnam,
Ethiopia, South Africa, and Nigeria. Unique features include the
book's emphasis on diverse legal frameworks, decolonial
perspectives, and cultural policies that serve as a basis for how
nations outside "the west" use music in their relationships with
Europe and North America.
Originally published in 1966, this is Volume II which is a
straightforward account of the British nationalized coal industry
in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume contains
parts 4 on Coal and Capitalism to Part five on Coal and Public
Policy.
This book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a
socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under
Stalin and in China under Mao. It is organized around three themes:
the convergence of Maoism with Stalinism in the early 1950s, which
induced the transnational transplantation of the Soviet model of
higher education to China; historical convergence between Stalinism
of the First Five-Year Plan period (1928-1932) and Maoism of the
Great Leap period (1958-1960), which was prominently manifested in
Soviet and Chinese higher education policies in these respective
periods; the eventual divergence of Maoism from Stalinism on the
definition of socialist society, which was evinced in the different
final outcomes of the Maoist and Stalinist endeavors to create a
socialist system of higher learning.
Profiles of influential Black women activists at a historic moment
This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics
through the stories of a remarkable cross section of Black women
who attended the 1977 National Women's Conference. These women
advocated for civil and women's rights but also for accessibility,
lesbians, sex workers, welfare recipients, laborers, and children.
The women featured in this book include icons Coretta Scott King
and Michelle Cearcy, a teenager who served as a torchbearer at the
conference. Contributors offer insights into the lives of Gloria
Scott, Dorothy Height, Freddie Groomes-McLendon, and Jeffalyn
Johnson. The profiles include activist organizers Georgia McMurray,
Barbara Smith, Johnnie Tillmon, Addie Wyatt, and Florynce Kennedy.
The hard-won achievements of politicians are examined and
celebrated, including those of Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm,
Maxine Waters, C. Delores Tucker, the first Black female secretary
of state for Pennsylvania, and Yvonne Burke, one of the first Black
women elected to Congress and the first representative to give
birth while serving. The final profiles cover Clara McClaughlin,
reporter Melba Tolliver, and photojournalist Diana Mara Henry, who
shared the details of the conference and the continual work being
done by Black women with others through various media channels.
This book places the diversity of Black women's experiences and
their leadership at the center of the history of the women's
movement. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that
twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly
characterised by translocality-the layering and blending of two or
more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural
writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on
multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study
of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two
novels-by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand,
Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo-set in a total of ninety-seven cities.
Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in
contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the
world narratable and turn them into relatable stories:
simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and
haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches,
and techniques from a variety of research fields-including
narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces,
and postcolonial perspectives-Mattheis develops a set of
cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.
In October 1962, the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This
study provides a new archive-based account of the Cuban missile
crisis, providing the first detailed and authoritative account from
the British perspective. The book draws upon new British and US
archival material and recent scholarship in the west and the former
USSR. The diplomatic, military and intelligence dimensions of
British policy are scrutinised. New material is presented and
existing interpretations of UK-US relations at this crucial moment
are reassessed. The book contributes a new aspect to the literature
on the Cuban missile crisis, by exploring where the views of
Washington and its closest ally converged and diverged.
In 2003, after winning six of the twelve majors from 2000 to 2002,
Tiger Woods struggled with his swing, leaving him lagging behind
the field at both the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship. With
Woods out of the picture, the stage was set for a newcomer to claim
the top position. Nobody expected that four virtually unknown
players would rise to become first-time champions.
In his debut appearance in a major, Ben Curtis became the only
player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to prevail on his first time
out. Mike Weir--who was considered a good player but not a great
one--triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian to win a
major. In the U.S. Open, Jim Furyk was victorious, and the PGA
Championship was claimed by the unknown Shawn Micheel.
But after each player's history-making season, the four have had
little further success. 2008 is the first year since that
unexpected year, when it will be possible for the four golfers to
qualify for the tour.""In MOMENT OF GLORY, John Feinstein returns
to the unlikely year of 2003 and chronicle the personal and
professional struggles of these four players. With great affection
for the underdog and extraordinary access to the players, he then
looks to the 2008 season, giving readers an insider's look into to
how winning (and losing) major championships changes players'
lives.
This book focuses on discourses of the politics of history
education and history textbooks. It offers a new insight into
understanding of the nexus between ideology, the state, and
nation-building, as depicted in history education and school
textbooks. It especially focuses on the interpretation of social
and political change, significant events, looking for possible
biases and omissions, leadership and the contribution of key
individuals, and continuities. The book discusses various aspects
of historical narratives, and some selected key events in defining
identity and nation-building. It considers the role of
historiography in dominant historical narratives. It analyses
history education, in both local and global settings, and its
significance in promoting values education and intercultural and
global understanding. It is argued that historical narratives add
pedagogies, grounded in constructivist, metacognitive and
transformational paradigms, have the power to engage the learner in
significant and meaningful learning experiences, informed by
multiple discourses of our historical narratives and those of other
nations.
An examination of how the U.S. court system has shaped the
boundaries of a central building block of American society from the
colonial era to the present day. Marriage on Trial: A Handbook with
Cases, Laws, and Documents explores the evolution of marriage, a
seemingly static institution that, in reality, has been
dramatically redefined over time. An illuminating introduction
tracing the reasons for ongoing controversies leads to a historical
overview of the ways in which marriage has evolved, with a
particular emphasis on women, racial minorities, polygamists, and
homosexuals. A review of significant court cases that represent key
arguments regarding marriage-legal identity of women, polygamy,
interracial marriage, rights of unmarried couples, and same-sex
marriages-illustrates how the legal system has shifted with the
changing mores of society. Will Americans ever tolerate polygamy?
Will gay marriages be legally recognized? Scenarios of these and
other possibilities for the future suggest that more change is in
store. A-Z entries on critical events like the feminist movement,
issues such as palimony, and key individuals Chronology of the most
important events in the legal history of marriage, including the
Loving v. Virginia case, which overturned the state's ban on
interracial marriage
For better or for worse, the Giro d'Italia remains the sporting
metaphor for Italians. To celebrate its centenary, Herbie Sykes
produced a unique - and uniquely personal - evocation. In realising
it he undertook a Giro of his own. Travelling the length of the
peninsular, he met with 100 of its constituents, and simply
listened to their stories. They were the champions and gregari, the
superstars and nearly-men, their wives, families and tifosi. There
were kingmakers and journalists, sponsors and officials, those who
have loved it and a few who abhorred it. Collectively their
testimonies represent a journey to the heart of the race, and to
Italian cycling identity. This, however, is a cycling journey with
a difference. In a departure from recent cycling convention, they
were invited to open not only their hearts, but also their
scrapbooks, photo albums and old cupboard drawers. There's no
anodyne photographic agency fodder here, no cliched Dolomite vistas
and no hackneyed portraits of Coppi, Merckx or Pantani. Rather the
images conjure the spirit, pathos and beauty of the greatest race
on earth and, more poignantly still, of 100 lives conditioned by
it.
A Short History of the Labour Party is the classic account of the
rise of the Labour Party from its foundation through to Tony
Blair's second term as Prime Minister. Thoroughly revised and
updated, it describes the events that led to the inception of the
party, the role of the trade unions within the party, the successes
and failures of the twentieth century and the revival of the
party's fortunes under Kinnock, Smith and then Blair. It closes
with an analysis of the current crisis that the Party faces over
its foreign policy choices since 9/11 including the war in Iraq.
This book thus provides the essential background for an
understanding and appreciation of today's political debates.
Between World War I and the Great Depression, progressive
educational administrators at Teachers College of Columbia
University joined hands with the National Education Association
(NEA) to establish a federal department of education and a national
system of schooling. This carefully researched book recounts their
efforts and the resistance mounted by Catholics who feared that
this reform movement would spell the end of parochial education.
The efforts of the educational trust were supported by a number of
organizations that fostered civic progressivism, including two
organizations not usually associated with reform: the Southern
Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Masonry and the Ku Klux Klan. Both of
these groups advocated a federal department of education, a
national university, and compulsory public schooling. Although the
NEA never went on record as favoring compulsory public education,
its close association with the Southern Scottish Rite and its
failure to distance itself from the KKK convinced Catholics that
the NEA intended to use a department of education to drive
parochial schools out of existence. The church countered the NEA's
efforts through intense political lobbying by the National Catholic
Welfare Conference (NCWC). Douglas J. Slawson's fascinating look at
a relatively unexplored episode in American history recounts
fourteen years of maneuvering and counter-maneuvering by the NEA
and NCWC over attempts to establish a federal department of
education and compulsory public schooling. This detailed study will
appeal to historians, educators, and anyone interested in the
history of federal participation in education, American society in
the 1920s, or Catholic civic engagement.
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