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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
"Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how
the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and
waterlogged southern Florida were reimagined as havens for American
leisure and agriculture. This is the story of the birth of modern
America."--Anthony J. Stanonis, author of Creating the Big Easy:
New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 "A
refreshingly original and subtly nuanced study of how nineteenth-
and twentieth-century boosters sold Florida and California as
'semi-tropical' lands worthy of serious attention. With clarity and
insight, Knight provides an instructive and provocative look at the
peculiar machinations of identity formation in America."--Rebecca
McIntyre, author of Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism
and Southern Mythology After the Civil War, two states emerged as
America's paradise destinations. Transformed from remote, sparsely
populated locales into two of the most publicized destinations in
the country, California and Florida also became the most desirable.
Private companies, state agencies, and journalists all lent a hand
in creating the seductive, expansionist imagery that promoted the
semitropical states, selling the idea of an attainable paradise
within the United States. Henry Knight examines and compares the
way the two states were promoted, adding to existing
historiographies on California and Florida while providing expert
analysis of how railroad kingpins, land barons, agriculturalists,
and chambers of commerce invented and popularized an image of these
states as the American Paradise.
The Shadow of Selma provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1965
civil rights campaign, the historical memory of the marches, and
the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights
Act. The essays consider Selma not just as a keystone event but,
much like Ferguson today, a transformative place: a supposedly
unimportant location that became the focal point of epochal
historical events. Contributors to this innovative volume examine
the relationship between the memorable figures of the
campaign?Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, among others?and
the thousands of other unheralded people who also crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way from Selma to Montgomery. They
analyze networks that undergirded as well as opposed the movement,
placing it in broader historical, political, and international
contexts. Addressing the influential role of media representations
from contemporary newspaper and television coverage to the 2014
Hollywood film by Ava DuVernay, several of the essays challenge the
redemptive narrative that has shaped popular memory, one that
glosses over ongoing racial problems. Finally, the volume explores
the fifty-year legacy of the Voting Rights Act, with particular
focus on Shelby County vs. Holder, which in 2013 seemed to suggest
that the Act had solved the disfranchisement problems of the civil
rights era and was outdated. Taken together, the essays argue that
while today the obstacles to racial equality may look different
than a literacy test or a grim-faced Alabama State Trooper, they
are no less real.
A scholarly edition of works by Henry Fielding. The edition
presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,
commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Henry Fielding's Miscellanies, three volumes of poetry, essays, and
satires, have never been studied in detail. Uneven in quality,
often highly personal, they offer important insights into the
concerns and growth of the English novelist. Mr. Miller has
provided a reference guide to the First volume of the three,
analyzing the writings and the intellectual traditions in which
Fielding worked. Included in Volume One are poetry, formal essays,
a translation from the Greek, and several satirical sketches and
Lucianic dialogues. Here is Fielding experimenting with literary
styles; adumbrated here are many of the themes and methods of the
later novels, Tom Jones and Amelia in particular. In recording
Fielding's intense moral concerns, his comic genius, and his
ironic, incisive portraits of man and society, Volume One of the
Miscellanies is a microcosm of his intellectual world. Originally
published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Henry Fielding's Miscellanies, three volumes of poetry, essays, and
satires, have never been studied in detail. Uneven in quality,
often highly personal, they offer important insights into the
concerns and growth of the English novelist. Mr. Miller has
provided a reference guide to the First volume of the three,
analyzing the writings and the intellectual traditions in which
Fielding worked. Included in Volume One are poetry, formal essays,
a translation from the Greek, and several satirical sketches and
Lucianic dialogues. Here is Fielding experimenting with literary
styles; adumbrated here are many of the themes and methods of the
later novels, Tom Jones and Amelia in particular. In recording
Fielding's intense moral concerns, his comic genius, and his
ironic, incisive portraits of man and society, Volume One of the
Miscellanies is a microcosm of his intellectual world. Originally
published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers,
politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawai‘i
together in the American imagination, emphasizing white settlement
and capitalist enterprise. In California and Hawai‘i Bound Henry
Knight Lozano explores how these settlers and boosters promoted and
imagined California and Hawai‘i as connected places and sites for
U.S. settler colonialism, and how this relationship reveals the
fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the
1840s to the 1950s. The growing ties of promotion and development
between the two places also fostered the promotion of “perilsâ€
over this transpacific relationship, from Native Hawaiians who
opposed U.S. settler colonialism to many West Coast Americans who
articulated social and racial dangers from closer bonds with
Hawai‘i, illustrating how U.S. promotional expansionism in the
Pacific existed alongside defensive peril in the complicated
visions of Americanization that linked California and Hawai‘i.
California and Hawai‘i Bound demonstrates how the settler
colonial discourses of Americanization that connected California
and Hawai‘i evolved and refracted alongside socioeconomic
developments and native resistance, during a time when U.S.
territorial expansion, transoceanic settlement and tourism, and
capitalist investment reconstructed both the American West and the
eastern Pacific.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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