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Libris – April 2015
Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (Uncivil Wars) edited by J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. Lens of War, grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and […]
Libris – March 2015
Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization edited by Luise White Luise White, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not […]
Libris – February 2015
The Male Clock: A Futuristic Novel about a Fertility Crisis, Gender Politics, and Identity edited by William Marsiglio William Marsiglio, Professor in Sociology and Criminology & Law. Available from Sense Publishers As speculative fiction informed by social science and biomedical perspectives, The Male Clock propels readers into a futuristic, yet believable world transformed by SGEV […]
Libris – November 2014
Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century Sean Patrick Adams Sean Patrick Adams, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in […]
Libris – October 2014
Palms and People in the Amazon Nigel Smith Nigel Smith, Professor Emeritus in Geography. Available from Springer. This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of […]
Libris – September 2014
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches Norman J.W. Goda Norman J.W. Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies. Available from Berghahn Books. For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the […]
Libris – July 2014
What it Takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice Alexander Burak Alexander Burak, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies. Available from Berghahn Books. Berghahn Books, Assistant Professor of Russian in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Available from Amazon. The complexity of translating prose fiction cannot be grasped […]
Libris – June 2014
Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach Dror Abend-David Dror Abend-David, Lecturer in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Available from Bloomsbury Publishing and Amazon. Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. In fact, there are those who believe that so much has been published in this field that […]
Libris – April 2014
After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin Michael S. Gorham Michael S. Gorham, Associate Professor of Russian Studies in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Available from Cornell University Press. In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of the Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to […]
Libris – March 2014
Content Burns Stephanie A. Smith Stephanie A. Smith, Professor of English. Pre-order available from Amazon. CONTENT BURNS chronicles the parallel stories of two women who bear the same Puritan name, in the same family, who are separated by three centuries and who are unknown to each other and yet both women must learn how to […]
Libris – February 2014
That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture David G. Hackett David G. Hackett, Associate Professor of Religion. Available from Amazon. This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons’ guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in […]
Libris – December 2013
Tan Men/Pale Women: Color and Gender in Archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach Mary Ann Eaverly Mary Ann Eaverly, Associate Professor of Classics. Available from University of Michigan Press. One of the most obvious stylistic features of Athenian black-figure vase painting is the use of color to differentiate women from men. By comparing ancient […]
Libris – November 2013
“The Other” in Translation: A Case for Comparative Translation Studies Alexander Burak Alexander Burak, Assistant Professor of Russian. Available from Amazon. In The Other in Translation: A Case for Comparative Translation Studies, Alexander Burak brings theorists and practitioners together and discusses ways of resolving specific translation problems on the basis of middle-range theories (Merton s […]
Libris – October 2013
Visions of Power in Cuba Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 Lillian Guerra Lillian Guerra, Associate Professor of History. Available from The University of North Carolina Press. In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts […]
Libris – April 2013
Baby Rocket Stephanie A. Smith Stephanie A. Smith, Professor of English. Available from Thames River Press. Online article about new book trilogy. “Baby Rocket” is the name given to a child who, in 1966, is found abandoned in a rocket-ride on Cape Canaveral. Traumatized, she could not speak when the police found her, a few […]