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New Materials
This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 200 years. Whether given utility as building parts, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, or foodstuffs, whether seen by their proponents as human-made or “found in nature,” materials result from the designation of some matter as both knowable and worth knowing about. In following these determinations we learn that the production of physical novelty under industrial, imperial and other cultural conditions has historically accomplished a huge range of social effects, from accruals of status and wealth to demarcations of bodies and geographies. Among other ca...
We Are the Stars
"We are the Stars critically interrogates the U.S. as a settler colonial nation and re-centers Oceti Sakowin women as our tribe's traditional culture keepers and culture bearers"--
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.” —Ron Chernow, author of Grant “Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else... Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership.” —Thomas E. Ricks, Foreign Policy Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain and Henry James hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents credit Grant with influencing their own writing. This is the first...
Tatar Empire
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual cuture that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity to the rest of Russia's Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges the history of Russia's imperial project with the history of Ru...
Tasteless, Cheap, and Southern?
This dissertation traces the rise and recent decline of the farm-raised catfish industry. From the 1960s to the 2000s, farmers and scientists reengineered the river catfish into an agro-industrial food crop. Through extensive agricultural scientific research and marketing, the farmed catfish industry changed the history of the animal, its image, its flesh and bone, its natural environment, and its place in society all by changing—or in an effort to change—its taste. This process moved the catfish from the ranks of a muddy tasting wild fish mainly associated with the poor, to a tasteless, cheap food consumed by all classes and ethnicities. Former cotton planters dug ponds and raised the f...
Karen
I like to thank all my friend's, and family who supported me in writing this book "Karen." I was inspired with the name Karen, because my own daughter name is Karen. At that time, I use to think of her a lot along with all the other characters in this book, which is also my kids. I have a lot of kids, and I have always been inspired by them, from the first day they were born. When I first started writing this book, I spend many days and nights doing so. One day, my mother saw my pages and decided to read them, and was more inspired than I was. She told me that she saw the pages and read them. And that I should continue writing, and so I did. Although my writing started somewhere in the 70s, my mother had the opportunity to review some of my book pages from when I first started my writing career. Today she's smiling down on me from haven, bless her soul. I'm sure she knows that she was, and still is a big inspiration to me. Upon all that was said, I would like to dedicate this book to all my kids. And a special thanks to my Mother, Josephine, two sisters Lillian and baby sister Diane, who are now in Heaven. Demitri, Jody, Karen, Joe, Danzell, Lillian, Delilah.Frank.
The Black Skirt
Issy leads a very ordered life, and that is just the way she likes it. Every moment is accounted for. Her schedule is chock-a-block, but in order to reach her goals, it has to be. Or does it simply mean that she has no room in her life for unpleasant memories?She completes her business degree - as planned, works hard at her two part-time jobs to pay for that and for her unit - as planned, then starts saving for her first trip overseas - as planned.And that's when she relinquishes the control she has had on her life up to this point - but that is part of the plan as well.What isn't planned is where this will lead her, but she has finally decided that she is ready for a little serendipity.
The Georgia Peach
This book explores the significance of the peach as a cultural icon and viable commodity in the American South.
Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945
The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the "megacity." A historical study of Manila looks at the continuing challenges of getting food, water, and services to the millions of people who live in the world's megacities.
