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José Martí's "Our America"
Considerable attention has been given to Cuban poet, essayist, and activist José Martí's 1891 essay "Nuestra América," but relatively little has been paid to the rest of the journalistic work that Martí produced during his fourteen-year exile in the United States. In José Martí's Our America, Jeffrey Belnap and Raúl Fernández present essays from Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S.-based scholars who consider Martí's rich and underexplored body of work and position Martí as an emblem of New American studies. A Cuban exile from 1881 to 1895, Martí was a correspondent writing in New York for various Latin American newspapers. Grasping the significance of rising U.S. imperial power, h...
Hemispheric Imaginings
In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas—which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine—provided the framework through which Americans understood and articulated their military and diplomatic role in the world. Hemispheric Imaginings demonstrates that North Americans conceived and developed the Monroe Doctrine in relation to transatlantic literary narratives. Gretchen Murphy argues that fiction and journalism were crucial to popularizing and making sense of the Doctrine’s contradictions, in...
Cattle Country
As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation's representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's broader struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. Dolan examines diverse texts from Native American, African American, Mexican American, and white authors that showcase the zeitgeist of anxiety surrounding U.S. identity as cattle gradually became an industrialized...
Fundamentals of Nursing Care
Text "Think like a Nurse" Connection boxes illustrate how to apply theory to practice in key areas: Clinicals - A&P - Patient Teaching - Real World Nursing - People & Places - Knowledge - Lab/Diagnoses - Delegation/Supervision. Step-by-step procedures for over 120 skills make every concept easy to grasp. "Post Conference" boxes follow each skill, summarizing what students have learned and describing the possible reactions of both patient and nurse. Critical-thinking questions hone skills and thought processes for clinical success. Geriatric content throughout familiarizes students with this patient demographic. Davis Edge Over 2,000 NCLEX-style questions that align to Fundamentals of Nursing Care with page references Comprehensive rationales for both correct and incorrect answers to promote in-depth understanding Test-taking tips to prepare students for exams and build their confidence All different question types, including those that students struggle with like alternate-format, select all that apply (SATA), prioritization and ordered response Responsive design for access from laptop, tablet, and mobile devices
Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing Care: Concepts, Connections & Skills
Here's the perfect companion to Davis Advantage for Fundamentals of Nursing Care, 4th Edition. It offers the practice nursing students need to hone their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, while mastering the principles, concepts, and procedures essential to success in the classroom and in practice. The Study Guide corresponds to the text chapter by chapter, while reinforcing the text's emphasis on 'connections' each step of the way. Perforated pages make it easy for students to submit their assignments to their instructors for evaluation. Highly recommend-- a good way to come prepared for class."To any prospective nursing students out there thinking about purchasing this workbook...
The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.
A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States
Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States is the first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct field of study, this unprecedented volume brings together a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches to offer analyses of African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others. Chapters written by a diverse panel of leading ...
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
