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Looks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.

Thestory of the Gibsons, a working-class family from El Paso, Texas, that is struggling to survive the desertion of their father. It is an account of a young man forced to measure memory and love against reason and reality. It is also an illuminating look at the surreal lives of America's homeless and a tribute to the strength of faith and family.

This study chronicles how German nationalism developed simultaneously with the historical novel and the field of history, both at universities and in middlebrow reading material. The book examines Germany's emerging national narrative as 19th-century writers adapted it to their own visions and to changing circumstances.

This biography is devoted to the life and career of Roy D. Chapin - one of the foremost figures in the history of Detroit's independent automotive industry.

The art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline.

Contains twenty first-person narrative essays from Holocaust survivors who were children at the time of the atrocity. This book also focuses on what these children became - teachers, engineers, physicians, entrepreneurs, librarians, parents, and grandparents, and explores the impact of the Holocaust on their later lives.

Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. This is a selection of 54 folktales from Matilda Koen-Sarano's collection of stories recorded in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and translated by Reginetta Haboucha into fluent and idiomatic English that preserves the flavour and oral nuances of each text.

Filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture. This collection offers coverage of Sayles's craft and content, with a variety of critical methods to explore the scope of his work. The essays give an understanding of his individual films and of his place in American cinema.

Pointing to an early instance in Hebrew literary history, this work takes its title from a biblical episode in which a daughter seizes control of a paternal spiritual legacy and makes it her own.

In ""A Hanging in Detroit"" David G. Chardavoyne evokes not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair.

While Israel is a small country, it has a diverse and continually changing society. As a result, since the 1960s Israeli anthropology has been a fertile ground for researchers. This collection introduces readers to the diverse field of social anthropology in Israel, pointing to both its rich history and promising future.

In this first-hand account of his native Bladenboro, George G. Suggs seeks to capture the world of a thriving cotton mill town where the company was dominant but the workers had forged a strong community. Here the focus is on the workers - their interests, personalities and values.

In the 1970s, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks about fairy tales and the words ""happily ever after."" After three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales.

A study of the most racially conscious aspect of the Conservative movement and its impact on politics and current public policy.

Providing both theory and praxis, this volume explains how to write humour, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. It includes the history and cultural background of each major genre, followed by an array of writing exercises and examples.

This is an examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their Heimat (home/homeland). The author uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context.

The author recounts his life as an African-American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician and the first black elected to a statewide office. He went on to become the first black vice president and general counsel to General Motors.

The eight essays in this volume consider questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema. They analyse the periphery - the other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.