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Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory

Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy

By: Matthew Kennedy

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Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory

Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy

By: Matthew Kennedy

At the dawn of sound, he wrote the story for the Academy Award-winning musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably with Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled at anti-war drama (White Banners, The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), fantastic Bette Davis weepies (Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Great Lie), lilting romantic dramas (The Constant Nymph, Claudia), big-budgeted literary adaptations (The Razor's Edge), and even film noir (Nightmare Alley).

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Terrace Books

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0299197700

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9780299197704

Roadshow!

The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

By: Matthew Kennedy

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Roadshow!

The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

By: Matthew Kennedy

In Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved genre caught in the hands of misguided creators who glutted the American film market with a spate of expensive and financially unrewarding musicals between 1967 and 1972. In doing so, it offers an alternative view of this era in the world of American popular entertainment, telling of the cultural importance of the studios' death grip on the film business rather than dwelling on the failures of the flops themselves.

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Oxford University Press

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0190262443

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9780190262440

The Sugar Barons

Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

By: Matthew Parker

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The Sugar Barons

Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

By: Matthew Parker

Traces the rise and fall of Caribbean sugar dynasties, discussing the Britain's dependence on colony wealth, the role of slavery in sugar plantation culture, and the North American colonial opposition to sugar policy in London.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802777988

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9780802777980

The City Game

Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

By: Matthew Goodman

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The City Game

Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

By: Matthew Goodman

The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall “A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The unlikeliest of champions, the 1949–50 City College Beavers were extraordinary by every measure. New York’s City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. Only two years after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier—and at a time when the National Basketball Association was still segregated—every single member of the Beavers was either Jewish or African American. But during that remarkable season, under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. This team, though, proved to be extraordinary in another way: During the following season, all of the team’s starting five were arrested by New York City detectives, charged with conspiring with gamblers to shave points. Almost overnight these beloved heroes turned into fallen idols. The story centers on two teammates and close friends, Eddie Roman and Floyd Layne, one white, one black, each caught up in the scandal, each searching for a path to personal redemption. Though banned from the NBA, Layne continued to devote himself to basketball, teaching the game to young people in his Bronx neighborhood and, ultimately, with Roman’s help, finding another kind of triumph—one that no one could have anticipated. Drawing on interviews with the surviving members of that championship team, Matthew Goodman has created an indelible portrait of an era of smoke-filled arenas and Borscht Belt hotels, when college basketball was far more popular than the professional game. It was a time when gangsters controlled illegal sports betting, the police were on their payroll, and everyone, it seemed, was getting rich—except for the young men who actually played the games. Tautly paced and rich with period detail, The City Game tells a story both dramatic and poignant: of political corruption, duplicity in big-time college sports, and the deeper meaning of athletic success.

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Ballantine Books

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1101882859

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9781101882856

Whiteness of a Different Color

European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

By: Matthew Frye Jacobson

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Whiteness of a Different Color

European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

By: Matthew Frye Jacobson

America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of “whiteness studies” and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants “race” has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were re-racialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counter-history of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian.Jacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century. The stages of racial formation—race as formed in conquest, enslavement, imperialism, segregation, and labor migration—are all part of the complex, and now counterintuitive, history of race. Whiteness of a Different Color traces the fluidity of racial categories from an immense body of research in literature, popular culture, politics, society, ethnology, anthropology, cartoons, and legal history, including sensational trials like the Leo Frank case and the Draft Riots of 1863.

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Harvard University Press

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067441781X

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9780674417816

Sport and the Media

Managing the Nexus

By: Matthew Nicholson,Anthony Kerr,Merryn Sherwood

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Sport and the Media

Managing the Nexus

By: Matthew Nicholson,Anthony Kerr,Merryn Sherwood

Successful media relations and a sound communication strategy are essential for all sport organizations. Any successful manager working in sport must have a clear understanding of how the media works, as well as the practical skills to manage the communication process. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus is still the only textbook to combine in-depth analysis of the rapidly developing sport media industry with a clear and straightforward guide to practical sport media management skills. The book explains the commercial relationships that exist between key media and sport organisations and how to apply a range of tools and strategies to promote the achievements of sport organisations. This updated edition includes a wider range of international examples and cases, as well as four completely new chapters covering new and social media, managing the media at major sports events, the work of the sports journalist, and the role of the sport media manager. The book's online resources have also been updated, with new lecture slides and teaching notes providing a complete package for instructors. Sport and the Media is an essential textbook for any degree level course on sport and the media, sport media management or sport communication, and invaluable reading for any sport media or sport management practitioner looking to improve their professional skills.

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Routledge

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1317690435

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9781317690436

Investment Banking For Dummies

By: Matthew Krantz,Robert R. Johnson

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Investment Banking For Dummies

By: Matthew Krantz,Robert R. Johnson

Wrap your head around the complicated world of investment banking with this understandable and comprehensive resource The celebrated authors of Investment Banking For Dummies, 2nd Edition have updated and modernized their best-selling book to bring readers an invaluable and accessible volume about the investment banking industry. Written in the straightforward and approachable tone the For Dummies series is known for the world over, authors Matthew Krantz and Robert Johnson have created an indispensable resource for students and professionals new to investment banking. The book covers all the crucial topics required to understand the fundamentals of the industry, including: Strategies for different types of risk management: market, credit, operating, reputation, legal, and funding The key investment banking operations: venture capital, buyouts, M&A, equity underwriting, debt, and more The relationship between leverages buyout funds, hedge funds, and corporate and institutional clients Investment Banking For Dummies, 2nd Edition offers, for the first time, a brand-new chapter devoted to cryptocurrencies, and new content on “unicorn” IPOs, including Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119748712

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9781119748717

Dictionary Of Modern Art

By: Matthew Baigell

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Dictionary Of Modern Art

By: Matthew Baigell

Alphabetically arranged and crossreferenced entries provide background information on major American painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, plus important topics and movements central to American art from the sixteenth century to the present.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429688709

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9780429688706

Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians

Vol. II

By: Robert Wodrow,Matthew Leishman

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Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians

Vol. II

By: Robert Wodrow,Matthew Leishman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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3385129621

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9783385129627

The Imperial Gridiron

Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

By: Matthew Bentley,John D. Bloom

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The Imperial Gridiron

Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

By: Matthew Bentley,John D. Bloom

The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school's original superintendent, Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt believed that Native Americans required the "embrace of civilization," and he emphasized the qualities of self-control, Christian ethics, and retaliatory masculinity. He encouraged sportsmanship and fair play over victory. Pratt's successors, however, adopted a different approach, and victory was enshrined as the main objective of Carlisle sports. As major stars like Jim Thorpe and Lewis Tewanima came to the fore, this change in approach created a conflict over manhood within the school: should the competitive athletic model be promoted, or should Carlisle focus on the more self-controlled, Christian ideal as promoted by the school's Young Men's Christian Association? The answer came from the 1914 congressional investigation of Carlisle. After this grueling investigation, Carlisle's model of manhood starkly reverted to the form of the Pratt years, and by the time the school closed in 1918, the school's standards of masculinity had come full circle.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496213378

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9781496213372

No Requiem for the Space Age

The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture

By: Matthew D. Tribbe

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No Requiem for the Space Age

The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture

By: Matthew D. Tribbe

During the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where "pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register." Such was the zeitgeist in the year of the moon. Yet this holy trinity of 1960s America would quickly fall apart. Although Jesus and John F. Kennedy remained iconic, by the time the Apollo Program came to a premature end just three years later few Americans mourned its passing. Why did support for the space program decrease so sharply by the early 1970s? Rooted in profound scientific and technological leaps, rational technocratic management, and an ambitious view of the universe as a realm susceptible to human mastery, the Apollo moon landings were the grandest manifestation of postwar American progress and seemed to prove that the United States could accomplish anything to which it committed its energies and resources. To the great dismay of its many proponents, however, NASA found the ground shifting beneath its feet as a fierce wave of anti-rationalism arose throughout American society, fostering a cultural environment in which growing numbers of Americans began to contest rather than embrace the rationalist values and vision of progress that Apollo embodied. Shifting the conversation of Apollo from its Cold War origins to larger trends in American culture and society, and probing an eclectic mix of voices from the era, including intellectuals, religious leaders, rock musicians, politicians, and a variety of everyday Americans, Matthew Tribbe paints an electrifying portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the postwar years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. No Requiem for the Space Age offers a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America itself in a time of dramatic cultural change.

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Oxford University Press

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0199313547

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9780199313549

Hubs of Empire

The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean

By: Matthew Mulcahy

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Hubs of Empire

The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean

By: Matthew Mulcahy

An introduction to the rich history and culture of the Greater Caribbean—the wealthiest region in British America. In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands, along with the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, as a single region. Separated by thousands of miles of ocean but united by shared history and economic interest, these territories formed the Greater Caribbean. Although the Greater Caribbean does not loom large in the historical imaginations of many Americans, it was the wealthy center of Britain’s Atlantic economy. Large-scale plantation slavery first emerged in Barbados, then spread throughout the sugar islands and the southeastern mainland colonies, allowing planters to acquire fortunes and influence unmatched elsewhere—including the tobacco colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Hubs of Empire begins in the sixteenth century by providing readers with a broad overview of Native American life in the region and early pirate and privateer incursions. Mulcahy examines the development of settler colonies during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, explores diverse groups of European colonists, and surveys political, economic, and military issues in the decades before the Seven Years War. The plantation system achieved its fullest and harshest manifestation in the Greater Caribbean. The number of slaves and the scale of the slave trade meant that enslaved Africans outnumbered Europeans in all of the affiliated colonies, often by enormous ratios. This enabled Africans to maintain more of their traditions, practices, and languages than in other parts of British America, resulting in distinct, creole cultures. This volume is an ideal introduction to the complex and fascinating history of colonies too often neglected in standard textbook accounts.

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JHU Press

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1421414716

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9781421414713

Some Kind of Hero

The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films

By: Matthew Field,Ajay Chowdhury,George Lazenby

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Some Kind of Hero

The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films

By: Matthew Field,Ajay Chowdhury,George Lazenby

For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli’s Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath and acclaim in equal measure for its now legendary James Bond series. Latterly, this family run business has been crowned with box office gold and recognised by motion picture academies around the world. However, it has not always been plain sailing. Changing financial regimes forced 007 to relocate to France and Mexico; changing fashions and politics led to box office disappointments; and changing studio regimes and business disputes all but killed the franchise. And the rise of competing action heroes has constantly questioned Bond’s place in popular culture. But against all odds the filmmakers continue to wring new life from the series, and 2012’s Skyfall saw both huge critical and commercial success, crowning 007 as the undisputed king of the action genre. Some Kind of Hero recounts this remarkable story, from its origins in the early ‘60s right through to the present day, and draws on hundreds of unpublished interviews with the cast and crew of this iconic series.

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The History Press

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0750966505

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9780750966504

Joan Blondell

A Life between Takes

By: Matthew Kennedy

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Joan Blondell

A Life between Takes

By: Matthew Kennedy

Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Born the child of vaudevillians, she was on stage by age three. With her casual sex appeal, distinctive cello voice, megawatt smile, luminous saucer eyes, and flawless timing, she came into widespread fame in Warner Bros. musicals and comedies of the 1930s, including Blonde Crazy, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. Frequent co-star to James Cagney, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart, friend to Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Bette Davis, and wife of Dick Powell and Mike Todd, Joan Blondell was a true Hollywood insider. By the time of her death, she had made nearly 100 films in a career that spanned over fifty years. Privately, she was unerringly loving and generous, while her life was touched by financial, medical, and emotional upheavals. Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is meticulously researched, expertly weaving the public and private, and features numerous interviews with family, friends, and colleagues.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1626744327

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9781626744325

Grandmaland

By: Matthew Ware Coulter

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Grandmaland

By: Matthew Ware Coulter

Where will we bury the boomers? At Grandmaland, a grandiose burial resort and theme park that springs from the active mind of history professor Cal Marpoult. Who will write the epitaph for the baby boom generation? What does the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba have to do with Grandmaland? Where will Cal find the investors to finance his dream? Why is there a federal wetlands in the middle of the arid West Texas plains, where Cal hopes to build his resort? How can an art-loving statistician help create Grandmaland while capturing Cal's heart? Follow Cal on a fun-filled adventure that mixes feng shui with Shakespeare and tons of American history. His journey ends where the legacy of his generation begins. Grandmaland. It's the Boomer Legacy.

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iUniverse

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059546646X

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9780595466467

The Chestertonian Library: An Anthology of Chesterton's Works from: 1891-1922, Volume 1, Fiction: The Hill of Humour

By: Matthew Hatchen

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The Chestertonian Library: An Anthology of Chesterton's Works from: 1891-1922, Volume 1, Fiction: The Hill of Humour

By: Matthew Hatchen

This is volume one of a multi-volume collected works series featuring G.K. Chesterton's writings between 1891-1922. Enjoy his wit and humor mingled with deep insights within this volume through four of his fictional works: The Ball and the Cross, MANALIVE, Napoleon of Notting Hill, and The Flying Inn.

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Lulu.com

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1365998916

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9781365998911

On Elizabeth Taylor

An Opinionated Guide

By: Matthew Kennedy

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On Elizabeth Taylor

An Opinionated Guide

By: Matthew Kennedy

On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide is a comprehensive overview of the film, television, and theatrical career of Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). Including an introduction, biographical chronology, and guide to her entire career, Matthew Kennedy gives a critical assessment of each film and performance. This Opinionated Guide gives direction to anyone unfamiliar with Miss Taylor's work as an actress and elegantly guides readers who desire to explore her career and her impact on twentieth century popular culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0197664113

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Unconventional Warriors

The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Television and Film

By: Matthew B. Hill

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Unconventional Warriors

The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Television and Film

By: Matthew B. Hill

Tracing the "American Guerrilla" narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history. American guerrillas fight small-scale battles that, despite their implications for large-scale American victories, often go untold. This book evaluates those stories to illumine the ways in which film and television have created, reinforced, and circulated an "American Guerrilla" fantasy—a mythic narrative in which Americans, despite having the most powerful military in history, are presented as underdog resistance fighters against an overwhelming and superior occupying evil. Unconventional Warriors: The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Television and Film explains that this fantasy has occupied the center of numerous war films and in turn shaped the way in which Americans see those wars and themselves. Informed by the author's expertise on war in contemporary literature and popular culture, this book begins with an introduction that outlines the basics of the "American Guerrilla" narrative and identifies it as a recurring theme in American war films. Subsequent chapters cover one hundred years of American "guerrillas" in film and television. The book concludes with a chapter on science fiction narratives, illustrating how the conventions and politics of these stories shape even the representation of wholly fictional, imagined wars on screen.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks

Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

By: Matthew P. Mayo

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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks

Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England

By: Matthew P. Mayo

The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region’s bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity—from witch-hunting to log rolling, sometimes with tragic results—this book is a perfect stroll through New England’s past for resident and visitor alike. Yankee history is rife with all manner of shipwreck victims surviving any way they know how; Indian, pirate, and shark attacks, cougar and bear attacks, and, of course, rum runners and bootleggers doing what they do best.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762766964

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Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Ten Case Studies

By: Matthew Steggle

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Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Ten Case Studies

By: Matthew Steggle

This book establishes new information about the likely content of ten lost plays from the period 1580-1642. These plays’ authors include Nashe, Heywood, and Dekker; and the plays themselves connect in direct ways to some of the most canonical dramas of English literature, including Hamlet, King Lear, The Changeling, and The Duchess of Malfi. The lost plays in question are: Terminus & Non Terminus (1586-8); Richard the Confessor (1593); Cutlack (1594); Bellendon (1594); Truth's Supplication to Candlelight (1600); Albere Galles (1602); Henry the Una (c. 1619); The Angel King (1624); The Duchess of Fernandina (c. 1630-42); and The Cardinal's Conspiracy (bef. 1639). From this list of bare titles, it is argued, can be reconstructed comedies, tragedies, and histories, whose leading characters included a saint, a robber, a Medici duchess, an impotent king, at least one pope, and an angel. In each case, newly-available digital research resources make it possible to interrogate the title and to identify the play's subject-matter, analogues, and likely genre. But these concrete examples raise wider theoretical problems: What is a lost play? What can, and cannot, be said about objects in this problematic category? Known lost plays from the early modern commercial theatre outnumber extant plays from that theatre: but how, in practice, can one investigate them? This book offers an innovative theoretical and practical frame for such work, putting digital humanities into action in the emerging field of lost play studies.

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Routledge

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1317150791

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Barbarian Virtues

The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917

By: Matthew Frye Jacobson

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Barbarian Virtues

The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917

By: Matthew Frye Jacobson

This book is an examination of national identity in a crucial period. The United States first announced its power on the international scene at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and first demonstrated that power during World War I. The years in between were a period of dramatic change, when the dynamics of industrialization rapidly accelerated the rate at which Americans were coming in contact with foreign peoples, both at home and abroad. In this work, the author shows how American conceptions of peoplehood, citizenship, and national identity were transformed in these crucial years by escalating economic and military involvements abroad and by the massive influx of immigrants at home. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, not only traditional political documents, but also novels, travelogues, academic treatises, and art, he demonstrates the close relationship between immigration and expansionism. By bridging these two areas, so often left separate, he rethinks the texture of American political life in a keenly argued and persuasive history. This book shows how these years set the stage for today's attitudes and ideas about "Americanism" and about immigrants and foreign policy, from Border Watch to the Gulf War.

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Macmillan

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0809016281

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The Ruins of Experience

Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness

By: Matthew Wickman

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The Ruins of Experience

Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness

By: Matthew Wickman

There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. Yet even as these changes were occurring, the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands were attracting increased attention as a region where witness experience in sublime and communal forms had managed to trump enlightened progress and the probabilistic, abstract, and mediated mentality on which the Enlightenment was predicated. There, in a remote corner of Britain, natives and tourists beheld things that surpassed enlightened understanding; experience was becoming all the more alluring to the extent that it signified something other than knowledge. Matthew Wickman examines this uncanny return of experiential authority at the very moment of its supposed decline and traces the alluring improbability of experience into our own time. Thematic in its focus and cross-disciplinary in its approach, The Ruins of Experience situates the literary next to the nonliterary, the old beside the new. Wickman looks to poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives to suggest an alternative historical view of the paradoxical tensions of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081220395X

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Hopi Runners

Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American

By: Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

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Hopi Runners

Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American

By: Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy cups or received acclaim in American newspapers, Hopi clan runners competed against each other on and below their mesas—and when they won footraces, they received rain. Hopi Runners provides a window into this venerable tradition at a time of great consequence for Hopi culture. The book places Hopi long-distance runners within the larger context of American sport and identity from the early 1880s to the 1930s, a time when Hopis competed simultaneously for their tribal communities, Indian schools, city athletic clubs, the nation, and themselves. Author Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert brings a Hopi perspective to this history. His book calls attention to Hopi philosophies of running that connected the runners to their villages; at the same time it explores the internal and external forces that strengthened and strained these cultural ties when Hopis competed in US marathons. Between 1908 and 1936 Hopi marathon runners such as Tewanima, Zeyouma, Franklin Suhu, and Harry Chaca navigated among tribal dynamics, school loyalties, and a country that closely associated sport with US nationalism. The cultural identity of these runners, Sakiestewa Gilbert contends, challenged white American perceptions of modernity, and did so in a way that had national and international dimensions. This broad perspective linked Hopi runners to athletes from around the world—including runners from Japan, Ireland, and Mexico—and thus, Hopi Runners suggests, caused non-Natives to reevaluate their understandings of sport, nationhood, and the cultures of American Indian people.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700626980

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Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen

True Tales of the Old West's Sleaziest Swindlers

By: Matthew P. Mayo

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True Tales of the Old West's Sleaziest Swindlers

By: Matthew P. Mayo

Everyone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and belles alike. This collection offers twenty-four tales of petty bandits, sleazy bunko artists, and conniving conmen and –women who traveled West to seek their fortunes by preying on the men and women who went before them to settle and explore. These stories of who they were, what they did, and why they are remembered for their deeds include ample and engaging historic illustrations of the shady characters at work and at play.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493018043

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9781493018048

Chemistry in Your Kitchen

By: Matthew Hartings

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Chemistry in Your Kitchen

By: Matthew Hartings

Whether you know it or not, you become a chemist any time you step into a kitchen. As you cook, you oversee intricate chemical transformations that would test even the most hardened of professional chemists. Focussing on how and why we cook different dishes the way we do, this book introduces basic chemistry through everyday foods and meal preparations. Through its unique meal-by-meal organisation, the book playfully explores the chemistry that turns our food into meals. Topics covered range from roasting coffee beans to scrambling eggs and gluten development in breads. The book features many experiments that you can try in your own kitchen, such as exploring the melting properties of cheese, retaining flavour when cooking and pairing wines with foods. Through molecular chemistry, biology, neuroscience, physics and agriculture, the author discusses various aspects of cooking and food preparation. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the science behind cooking.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1839162937

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The Book of Ghouls

By: David Hambling,C. T. Phipps,Matthew Davenport,Eric Malikyte,Philip Hemplow

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The Book of Ghouls

By: David Hambling,C. T. Phipps,Matthew Davenport,Eric Malikyte,Philip Hemplow

Ghouls have a special place in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, as the monstrous eaters of the dead are the only creatures from traditional folklore to stalk through his Mythos. Lovecraft’s universe was science fictional rather than fantastic, and his nightmare creations were alien rather than supernatural. While his ghouls were inspired by a fascination with the Arabian Nights, they have an added dimension of horror: they were once human. In The Book of Ghouls, five Neo-Mythos writers known for cosmic horror explore Lovecraftian ghouls’ sinister, cannibalistic relationship with humanity: C.T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon), Matthew Davenport (The Adventures of Andrew Doran), David Hambling (the Harry Stubbs series), Eric Malikyte (Mind’s Horizon), and Philip Hemplow (Sarcophagus, Exoteric). In this volume you will meet with ghouls everywhere from the steamy jungles of the Vietnam war to the refined air of Arkham’s high society, from a bizarre festival on a remote Scottish island to small town America, and from 1920s South London to the mystical Dreamlands. The Book of Ghouls is the latest in the acclaimed Books of Cthulhu series inviting you to face the terrifying creatures that lurk just beyond the edge of human understanding.

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Crossroad Press

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1637891458

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Football

A Guide for Players and Fans

By: Matthew Allan Chandler

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Football

A Guide for Players and Fans

By: Matthew Allan Chandler

Football: A Guide for Players and Fans puts young readers on the sideline of one of North America's most popular sports. Readers will find easy-to-read explanations of football's beginnings, basic rules and strategies, and how they can suit up and get on the field. This book features colorful photos, fun facts, and informative sidebars, and young football fans will take their newfound knowledge right to the end zone!

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154357369X

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The Dream of a New Social Order

Popular Magazines in America, 1893–1914

By: Matthew Schneirov

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The Dream of a New Social Order

Popular Magazines in America, 1893–1914

By: Matthew Schneirov

The Dream of a New Social Order

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Columbia University Press

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0231513453

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9780231513456

All-Star Goofball Trivia

Weird and Wild Sports Trivia

By: Matthew Allan Chandler

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All-Star Goofball Trivia

Weird and Wild Sports Trivia

By: Matthew Allan Chandler

Why would a soccer star wear his underwear inside-out on game day? For good luck, of course. And he's right at home in All-Star Goofball Trivia, a collection of the strange facts and silly stories from the world of sports.

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Capstone

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1623707781

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Fundamentals of Patent Law

Interpretation and Scope of Protection

By: Matt Fisher

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Fundamentals of Patent Law

Interpretation and Scope of Protection

By: Matt Fisher

Shortlisted for the 2008 Young Authors Inner Temple Book Prize This new book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic of patent claim interpretation in the UK and in three other select jurisdictions. It explores territory that has great commercial significance and yet is severely under-explored in existing works. The twin issues of the function of patent law and interpretational analysis of the scope of protection have been recently reconsidered by the House of Lords, and this work not only reviews their recent cases but also looks at how the US, German and Japanese patent systems deal with the complex problems presented in this area. The book provides a balanced approach between practical, academic and theoretical approaches to claim interpretation. In doing so it provides more than a simple case analysis, as it enables the reader to consider the shape that the law should take rather than simply recounting the current position. Its novelty therefore lies in bringing the theoretical elements of the discussion together with the view of the profession charged with creating the patent documentation in the first place and then viewing this in the light of the detailed comparative studies. It is only by considering all of these elements that we begin to see a pathway for the development of the law in this area. This is a work that will be an important source of reference for academics and practitioners working in the field of patent law.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847313817

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America's Joan of Arc

The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

By: J. Matthew Gallman

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America's Joan of Arc

The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

By: J. Matthew Gallman

One of the most celebrated women of her time, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War. In "America's Joan of Arc," Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century.

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Oxford University Press

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0195161459

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The Executioner's Toll, 2010

The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States

By: Matthew T. Mangino

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The Executioner's Toll, 2010

The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States

By: Matthew T. Mangino

The Executioner's Toll, 2010 is a meticulous examination of every execution (and the details surrounding the execution) carried out in a single year--and a thought-provoking exploration into the minds of 46 killers as each plays the role of predator, quarry and condemned. The unsettling narratives begin with a murder on May 26, 1993, and end with an execution on December 16, 2010. The book chronicles 63 murders, 44 trials, countless appeals, two suicide attempts, 41 last meals, 33 final statements and 46 executions. The Executioner's Toll, 2010 could have covered any year in the modern era of the death penalty, but had to cover one complete year, in order to provide a true picture of the death penalty, executions and the anguish of victims. This book presents the compelling stories, accounts often neglected in the mainstream media. Every person facing the executioner has a story, every killing is as unique as it is devastating.

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McFarland

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0786479795

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9780786479795

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