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A Woman's Will
Unearths the lives of British women over 1,000 years using the rich historical record of their wills and legacies.
The Pegoda Family in America
This book documents three generations of descendants of John Pegoda, Sr., an immigrant from Ruda, Prussia to Walker County, Texas in 1851.
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.
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Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
The first book to systematically combine the two vibrant yet hitherto unconnected fields of memory and affect in Shakespeare's England.
Robert Altman's Soundtracks
Robert Altman's Soundtracks offers a compelling new look at this celebrated director's films through his innovative uses of music and sound. As author Gayle Sherwood-Magee illustrates, Altman's considerable and varied output speaks to the changing film industry over decades from Nashville (1975) to A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
Opera for the People
Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activitie...
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots
This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat injustices in one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation. In Mississippi, the civil rights struggle began in May 1959 with “wade-ins.” In open and conscious defiance of segregation laws, Mason led nine black Biloxians onto a...
