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Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Complexity and Construction in Greek Guerrilla Theater

By: Linda S. Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

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Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Complexity and Construction in Greek Guerrilla Theater

By: Linda S. Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

Resistance theater in Greece under Nazi occupation was organized by the political and armed wings of the EAM/ELAS resistance movement and operated in the mountains of what was called Free Greece. This work introduces the cultural resistance of over 1000 cultural teams across Greece that mounted over 22,000 performances from 1943-44 and the work of three subsidized troupes that toured the mountain villages and armed camps of Epirus, Thessaly, and western Macedonia. It targets the history of the largest of those troupes and its performances that constitute the largest single source of resistance texts in Free Greece.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754074

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9780838754078

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

By: Linda Myrsiades

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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

By: Linda Myrsiades

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the judicial philosophy of Federalist judges, as well as grand jury charges, law reports, judges’ bench notes, and defense notes for the trials, to develop a portrait of the hegemony of official interpretations of the law. At the same time, the book illuminates popular attitudes about the courts and the law and explores the nature of extralegal courts operated by the people. Myrsiades captures the agitation-propaganda efforts mounted by rebel communities and groups together with petitions and speeches in the rebel assemblies in demonstrating that popular culture offered a clear politico-legal justification within the rebel movement on the unofficial side of legal culture. Myrsiades thus presents a holistic picture of the legal culture of the rebellion. Her examination denies the common perception that the rebel movement was incoherent and chaotic and presents an alternative view that its perceptions are a necessary correlative to understanding how treason law functioned and what its critical elements were in the late-eighteenth century, serving as a lesson for democracy in the present era.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820366277

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9780820366272

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Dissecting the Rush V. Cobbett Trial, 1799

By: Linda S. Myrsiades

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Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Dissecting the Rush V. Cobbett Trial, 1799

By: Linda S. Myrsiades

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 offers the first deep analysis of the most important libel trial in post-revolutionary America and an approach to understanding a much-studied revolutionary figure, Benjamin Rush, in a new light as a legal subject. This libel trial faced off the new nation's most prestigious physician-patriot, Benjamin Rush, against its most popular journalist, William Cobbett, the editor of Porcupine's Gazette. Studied by means of a rare and substantial surviving transcript, the trial features six litigating counsel whose narrative of events and roles provides a unique view of how the revolutionary generation saw itself and the legacy it wished to leave to its progeny. The trial is structured by assaults against medical bleeding and its premier practitioner in yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s in Philadelphia, on the one hand, and castigates the licentiousness of the press in the nation's then-capital city, on the other. As it does so, it exemplifies the much-derided litigiousness of the new nation and the threat of sedition that characterized the development of political parties and the partisan press in late eighteenth-century America.

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Lexington Books

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1611461022

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9781611461022

Karagiozis

Culture and Comedy in Greek Puppet Theater

By: Linda Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

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Karagiozis

Culture and Comedy in Greek Puppet Theater

By: Linda Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

Karagiozis—a form of comic folk drama employing stock puppet figures—was immensely popular in Greece until recent years, when newer forms of entertainment have virtually eclipsed it. Derived from ancient Byzantine and Greek sources, it takes its name from the principal puppet character, the clever, humpbacked fool-hero Karagiozis, who appears in many guises, surrounded by a cast of folk caricatures from all walks of life. Kostas and Linda Myrsiades present here a tripartite view of Karagiozis: a translation of a typical text taken directly from a live performance; interviews with one of the last master Karagiozis puppeteers; and an analysis of the place of this indigenous genre in Greek life and culture. The first part of the book examines critical issues concerning the context of Karagiozis performance: its place as an expression of an unofficial social world, as a gender statement that reveals the split vision of its culture, as an expression of a pluralistic society, and as an indigenous event shaped by economic, geographic, political, and social forces. The second portion offers insights from interviews with Giorgos Haridimos, until his retirement Greece's preemi-nent Karagiozis player, and a translation of his classic text "Karagiozis Baker" reflecting an actual performance by Haridimos. Through novel verbal and typographic devices, Kostas Myrsiades succeeds in preserving the full flavor of his oral source—its rhythms and intonations, its linguistic nuances, and even audience reactions—to convey the actual experience of the theatergoer. This unique translation thus establishes a model for collecting and disseminating oral theatrical tradition. Folklorists, cultural historians, and students of theater will appreciate this introduction to an ancient but little known folkloric form.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813193842

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9780813193847

Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only

By: Linda Brodkey

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Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only

By: Linda Brodkey

Ranging from personal essay to hard-hitting polemic and touching on many of the major issues in the teaching of writing today, this volume explores alternatives to the standard methods for teaching composition.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452900345

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America's Best Pies 2014-2015

Nearly 200 Recipes You'll Love

By: American Pie Council,Linda Hoskins

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America's Best Pies 2014-2015

Nearly 200 Recipes You'll Love

By: American Pie Council,Linda Hoskins

Blueberry, rhubarb, Boston cream, key lime. Hungry yet? Since 1995, amateur, commercial, and professional bakers have competed in the National Pie Championships to determine who makes the best pies in America. America’s Best Pies 2014 is a collection of nearly two hundred delicious recipes that have won awards at the National Pie Championships. From the unusual—deep-dish deluxe banana split pie—to the traditional, such as apple pie, every recipe has been reviewed by judges and determined to be an award-winning pie. These selections are considered some of the best of the best from across the country. When you start making these pies at home, you’ll see why! America’s Best Pies 2014 is packed with color photographs of the pies you’ll learn to make and love. As a special treat to give you a taste of what the championships are like, many of the photographs are of the actual pies entered in the competition. The recipes inside are clearly explained so that the expert and the future expert pie-maker can enjoy alike. Whether it’s apple, custard, strawberry, or raisin that captures your taste buds, you’re sure to find a recipe that you can’t wait to try. Just be sure to share your tantalizing creations with friends and family, and get ready to serve seconds! Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1629148571

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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

By: Linda Myrsiades

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The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

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University of Georgia Press

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0820366277

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Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799

By: Linda Myrsiades

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Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799

By: Linda Myrsiades

This study focuses on two critical figures in late eighteenth-century America—the physician Benjamin Rush and the journalist William Cobbett— as they clashed in one of the most important trials of post-revolutionary America, a libel trial that pitted medicine against the press, republicanism against federalism, and privacy against the public welfare.

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Lexington Books

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1611461030

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Karagiozis

Culture and Comedy in Greek Puppet Theater

By: Linda Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

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Culture and Comedy in Greek Puppet Theater

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813159415

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9780813159416

Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Complexity and Construction in Greek Guerrilla Theater

By: Linda S. Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

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Complexity and Construction in Greek Guerrilla Theater

By: Linda S. Myrsiades,Kostas Myrsiades

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754074

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Medical Culture in Revolutionary America

Feuds, Duels, and a Court-martial

By: Linda S. Myrsiades

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Medical Culture in Revolutionary America

Feuds, Duels, and a Court-martial

By: Linda S. Myrsiades

Focusing on doctors' feuds and duels, yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, and a court-martial of the medical director of army hospitals in the Revolutionary War, this title is set during a time when American medicine was caught in a period of catastrophic change.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641903

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Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Karagiozis

Karagiozis

Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only

Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only

America's Best Pies 2014-2015

America's Best Pies 2014-2015

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Karagiozis

Karagiozis

Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance

Medical Culture in Revolutionary America

Medical Culture in Revolutionary America

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