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This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of
motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the
twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in
their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate -or to
obliterate-the complex assertions of maternal authority as it
challenges traditional family and social structures. The analysis
engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother
is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother
is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often
unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot. These plots
reappear and are transformed by authors as diverse in chronology
and use of literary form as Augustine, Shakespeare, Milton, Oscar
Wilde, and Tony Kushner. The book argues that, insofar as women
become the second sex, it is not because they are females per se
but because they are mothers; at the same time the analysis probes
the transformative political and social potential of motherhood as
it appears in contemporary texts like Angels in America.
To millions of people in the world, rice is the centre of
existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the
world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes
that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II,
but particularly since the introduction of new varieties of rice
and modern technology in the mid-1960s. Although there is now a
vast amount of literature and statistical data on various aspects
of the subject, no single comprehensive treatment has previously
been prepared. The Rice Economy of Asia not only provides such a
treatment but also presents a clear picture of some of the critical
issues dealing with productivity and equity --- as a glance at the
table of contents will show. In addition to 18 chapters, there are
an extensive bibliography, 150 tables, and 50 charts. The volume,
as a whole, should be interesting and useful to decision makers at
national and international levels, to professionals, and to
students of development.
Originally published in 1985, Beth Rose's Appendix to the Rice
Economy of Asia provides twenty-six tables detailing various rice
statistics across Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century
through to the 1980's. Statistics presented include; total crop
area, rice production and yield, import and export, rice prices,
farm wages and populations of countries or areas within Asia. This
title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and
Economics.
Originally published in 1985, Beth Rose's Appendix to the Rice
Economy of Asia provides twenty-six tables detailing various rice
statistics across Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century
through to the 1980's. Statistics presented include; total crop
area, rice production and yield, import and export, rice prices,
farm wages and populations of countries or areas within Asia. This
title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and
Economics.
This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all
of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of
childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers
and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of
its kind, "Elizabeth I" reveals brilliance on two counts: that of
the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English
Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations
make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to
general readers as well.
For most readers and spectators, heroism takes the form of public,
idealized masculinity. It calls to mind socially and morally
elevated men embarking on active adventures: courageously
confronting danger; valiantly rescuing the helpless; exploring and
claiming unconquered terrain. But in this book, Mary Beth Rose
argues that from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth
centuries, a passive, more female, but equally potent dimension of
heroic identity began to dominate English culture. For both men and
women, heroism came to be defined in terms of patience, as the
ability to endure suffering, catastrophe, and pain.
Interweaving discourses of gender, Rose explores ways in which this
heroics of endurance became the dominant model. She examines the
glamorous, failed destinies of heroes in plays by Shakespeare,
Jonson, and Marlowe; Elizabeth I's creation of a heroic identity in
her public speeches; the autobiographies of four ordinary women
thrust into the public sphere by civil war; and the seduction of
heroes into slavery in works by Milton, Aphra Behn, and Mary
Astell. Ultimately, her study demonstrates the importance of the
female in the creation of modern heroism, while offering a critique
of heroic values, including both idealized action and suffering.
""The Earth says, God has placed me here. The Earth says that God
tells me to take care of the Indians on this earth; the Earth says
to the Indians that stop on the Earth, feed them right. . . . God
says feed the Indians upon the earth.""
--Cayuse Chief Young Chief, Walla Walla Council of 1855
America has always been Indian land. Historically and culturally,
Native Americans have had a strong appreciation for the land and
what it offers. After continually struggling to hold on to their
land and losing millions of acres, Native Americans still have a
strong and ongoing relationship to their homelands. The land holds
spiritual value and offers a way of life through fishing, farming,
and hunting. It remains essential--not only for subsistence but
also for cultural continuity--that Native Americans regain rights
to land they were promised.
Beth Rose Middleton examines new and innovative ideas concerning
Native land conservancies, providing advice on land trusts,
collaborations, and conservation groups. Increasingly, tribes are
working to protect their access to culturally important lands by
collaborating with Native and non- Native conservation movements.
By using private conservation partnerships to reacquire lost land,
tribes can ensure the health and sustainability of vital natural
resources. In particular, tribal governments are using conservation
easements and land trusts to reclaim rights to lost acreage.
Through the use of these and other private conservation tools,
tribes are able to protect or in some cases buy back the land that
was never sold but rather was taken from them.
"Trust in the Land" sets into motion a new wave of ideas concerning
land conservation. This informative book will appeal to Native and
non-Native individuals and organizations interested in protecting
the land as well as environmentalists and government agencies.
From Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara lands in South Dakota; to
Cherokee lands in Tennessee; to Sin-Aikst, Lakes, and Colville
lands in Washington; to Chemehuevi lands in Arizona; to Maidu, Pit
River, and Wintu lands in northern California, Native lands and
communities have been treated as sacrifice zones for national
priorities of irrigation, flood control, and hydroelectric
development. Upstream documents the significance of the Allotment
Era to a long and ongoing history of cultural and community
disruption. It also details Indigenous resistance to both
hydropower and disruptive conservation efforts. With a focus on
northeastern California, this book highlights points of
intervention to increase justice for Indigenous peoples in
contemporary natural resource policy making. Author Beth Rose
Middleton Manning relates the history behind the nation's largest
state-built water and power conveyance system, California's State
Water Project, with a focus on Indigenous resistance and activism.
She illustrates how Indigenous history should inform contemporary
conservation measures and reveals institutionalized injustices in
natural resource planning and the persistent need for advocacy for
Indigenous restitution and recognition. Upstream uses a
multidisciplinary and multitemporal approach, weaving together
compelling stories with a study of placemaking and land
development. It offers a vision of policy reform that will lead to
improved Indigenous futures at sites of Indigenous land and water
divestiture around the nation.
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance
drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural
transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and
historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural
conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of
modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic
representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary
moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage,
Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted
sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and
transforming them.
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
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