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Beloved Community
The "Young American" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics. Blake draws on biography to emphasize the intersection of questions of self, culture, and society in their calls for a culture of "personality" and "self-fulfillment." In contrast to the tendency of previous...
The Two Faces of American Freedom
The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule—one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordinatio...
The secret island
For Dr Michael Berg it is a stroke of luck when he is offered the management of the small hospital on a remote island. He is to treat prisoners who are settled there as part of a secret project. The offenders are allowed to move freely on the idyllic, seemingly uninhabited island and have to look after themselves. Very soon, however, it turns out that they are not alone at all. None of them suspects that they are to become victims of a gruesome experiment. Only when huge primeval predators invade the men's camp and apparently regard the defenceless humans as prey, do they realise that they are in the utmost danger of their lives on this cursed island ...
Dreaming in the Classroom
Dreaming in the Classroom provides teachers from virtually all fields with a uniquely informative guidebook for introducing their students to the universal human phenomenon of dreaming. Although dreaming may not be held in high esteem in mainstream Western society, students at all education levels consistently enjoy learning about dreams and rank classes on dreaming among their favorite, most significant educational experiences. Covering a wide variety of academic disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, humanities, film studies, philosophy, religious studies, the book explains in clear and practical language the most effective methods for teaching accurate, useful information about dre...
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Hansen – A Novel of Canadianization
In 'Hansen – A Novel of Canadianization,' Augustus Bridle offers a profound exploration of the cultural assimilation process within the Canadian experience through the narrative journey of its eponymous character. Employing a refined prose that demonstrates an intimate understanding of the human condition within the context of early 20th-century Canadian society, Bridle crafts a story that lingers on crucial issues of identity and belonging. As part of DigiCat Publishing's commitment to preserving literary heritage, this special edition revives Bridle's work for contemporary audiences, offering not only a narrative rich in historical texture but also a theme that remains pertinent as ever ...
Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History
Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from Cane and from his identification as a black writer. In Jean Toomer a...
Chants Democratic
Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.
