Publication date: 1959
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Review Shtimmer, the boy who couldn't talk: The story of a Jewish immigrant from Romania and his role in the American labor movement / Exposition Press:
Creator: Linda A. Chance
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 895.6342
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Review The Autobiographical Narrative in Modern Japan: A Study of Kasai Zenzo, a Shi-shosetsu Writer / Edwin Mellen Press:This study offers both a chronological description of the literary career of Kasai Zenzo (1887-1928) and an historical examination of shi-shosetsu (a Japanese autobiographical/confessional literary genre) during and after his lifetime. This work should appeal to scholars interested in Japanese literature and the genre of autobiography. Zenzo was one of the most important shi-shosetsu authors, living in the Taisho Period (1912-1926) in which this genre was in the height of its ascendancy. In shi-shosetsu, the "I" novel, the author recounts details of his or her personal life with only a thin veneer of fiction. This genre was believed to be an ideal form of prose writing and an expression of individual depth, created without the fabrications normally found in conventional fiction, making it one of the most striking features of modern Japanese literature. Kasai, living his entire life in poverty, turned to Zen Buddhism for spiritual solace and became both a major architect of the Taisho shi-shosetsu and its defining author.
Publication date: 1990-01
Dewey code: 287.8092
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Review The Moral of Molliston Madison Clark: The Adverse Atavisms Antiabolitionists Adored and an American African Methodist Minister Moved to Abort (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Pr:The history of an American African Methodist minister.
Publication date: 2007-07-08
Dewey code: 266.0234940667
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Review Missionary Practices on the Gold Coast, 1832-1895: Discourse, Gaze and Gender in the Basel Mission in Pre-Colonial West Africa / Cambria Press:This is a valuable scholarly analysis of the ways that the practices of three members of the Basel Mission (Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft Basel)-Andreas Riis (1804-1854), Rosine Widmann (1828-1909), and Carl Christian Reindorf (1834-1917)-informed the nineteenth-century mission field of the Gold Coast between the years 1832-1895. This study is based upon the original handwritten documents of these three missionaries, which are housed in the Basel Mission Archive in Basel, Switzerland. The book is located within the larger discipline of postcolonial studies, and more particularly within the framework of Tzvetan Todorov's discussion of 'signs' in his 1984 work The Conquest of America. The study also is set against the backdrop of the important theories on missions in the writings of Schleiermacher, Fabri, and Warneck. A significant contribution made by this study is that it contains the first discussion of the female German missionary Rosine Widmann, who serves as a kind of example of the then current Missionsfrauen. This book leads to a better understanding of the Gold Coast, and makes important contributions to scholarship in the fields of mission studies, German historical theology, German studies, and African studies.
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 305.896073009041
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Review Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919 (African American Literature and Culture: Expanding and Exploding the Boundaries) / Peter Lang Publishing:Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the Red Summer of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any particularity of cause, and in doing so calls into question many longstanding beliefs about racial violence. The book goes on to portray the riots as a phenomenon, documenting the number of incidents, describing the events in detail, and analyzing the patterns that emerge from looking at the riots collectively. Finally and significantly, Race Riots and Resistance argues that the response to the riots marked an early stage of what came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement.
Creator: Theresa A. Mohamed
Publication date: 2007-02-28
Dewey code: 305.896073
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Review Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments About African American Failure / Edwin Mellen Press:Speaking at the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Bill Cosby criticized the behaviour of low-income African Americans for their lack of self-development. This collection is not so much a response to Cosby's remarks as it is an examination of the problem from multiple perspectives; it draws on the sociological, psychological, educational, economic, and historical elements.
Publication date: 1937
Review Life begins at 60 / Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews:
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 973.9092396073
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Review The Charles H Parrishes: Pioneers in African American Religion and Education 1880-1989 (Black Studies, V. 18) / Edwin Mellen Press:The Parrishes were an extraordinary family whose work and example influenced African Americans in Louisville and elsewhere for nearly a century. Dr. Williams weaves together the facts of both history and family biography to create a richly nuanced account of their lives and times. This work is a rare combination - an outstanding research achievement that is also eminently enjoyable and illuminating.
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 781.650899607304
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Review African-American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora (Studies in African Diaspora, V. 2) / Edwin Mellen Press:An examination of the migration of African American jazz musicians to other parts of the world from 1919 to the 21st century. It provides evidence that African American jazz musicians fared better in the diaspora than they did in America where jazz and its inventors were born.
Creator: Meir Lubetski
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 296.1206092
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Review Saul Lieberman, 1898-1983, Talmudic Scholar (Jewish Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:Long acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent scholars of his generation, this book provides a sense of the multi-faceted nature of Lieberman's greatness: his method of establishing the correct reading of given rabbinic text; his mastery of Greek and Latin in their historical and cultural contexts; the incredible literary sophistication that Lieberman utilized in approaching ancient texts; his salient contribution to medieval history and literature; and his guidance in biblical exegesis.
Authors
- Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler
Dewey code: 941.050922
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Review Ten Remarkable Women of the Tudor Courts and Their Influence in Founding of the New World, 1530-1630 (Mellen Lives, Vol 11) / Edwin Mellen Press:The remarkable women studied in this work include: Lady Jane Grey; Mary Queen of Scots; Margaret, Countess of Cumberland; Bess Throckmorton Raleigh; and Eleanor White Dare.
Authors
- La.) Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies (1995 Baton Rouge
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 370.92
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Review Booker T. Washington-Interpretative Essays (Black Studies, V. 4) / Edwin Mellen Press:This collection of essays range from case studies of the impact of Booker T. Washington's career on African-Americans, through comparative discussions of his views and those of other African-American leaders, to a general overview of the state of historiography.
Creator: Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 941.072
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Review The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar 1724-1741: Literary and Political Events in Georgian England (Women's Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 33.) / Edwin Mellen Press:Mary Freman Caesar was part of the literary and political worlds of early Georgian England. She was married in 1702 to Tory politician (and future Jacobite) Charles Caesar. Though primarily concerned with contemporary matters and her correspondence with authors such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, she also wrote about events as far distant as the reign of Elizabeth I. This volume presents her journal in its entirety, along with a biographical introduction and annotations.
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 270.2092
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Review On the Erudition of the Historical St. Patrick (Celtic Studies, 2) / Edwin Mellen Press:This monograph supports and advances the views of Celtic scholar David R. Howlett. Topics such as the compositional level of the historical St Patrick, the five collections of the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of St Matthew, on which the thematic structure of his "Confession" is based, are discussed. This work demonstrates that the historical St Patrick might well be considered not only as a first-rate Biblical theologian, but as a wise, monastic, spiritual director versed in moral and pastoral theory.
Creator: Jay Rubin
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-12-29
Dewey code: 895.6090044
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Review Modern Japanese Writers Edition 1. (Scribner Writers) / Charles Scribner's Sons:This is the first encyclopedia in the Scribner Writers Series to focus on Asian writers and genres. It highlights 25 of the most widely translated Japanese authors, such as Yukio Mishima, Kobo Abe, Junichiro Tanizaki and Fumiko Enchi. (20020101).
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 221.09015
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Review Citations and Allusions to Jewish Scripture in Early Christian and Jewish Writings Through 180 C.E. / Edwin Mellen Press:
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- Adam Neuman-Nowicki
- Sharon Stambovsky Strosberg
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 940.5481438
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Review Struggle for Life During the Nazi Occupation of Poland (Symposium Series, Vol 47) / Edwin Mellen Press:The testimony of the author's experience, hardships, suffering and survival of the Nazi occupation of Poland, this volume includes photographs and reproductions of documents, for example: a "true passage" document and an example of an anti-Semitic propaganda flier.
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 272.7
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Review The Jesuits and the Joint Mission to England During 1580-1581 (Renaissance Studies, V. 4) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2008-10-31
Dewey code: 709
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Review Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists / Iad Press:
Publication date: 2000-09-13
Dewey code: 759.2915
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Review Paul Henry / Yale University Press:In his idyllic landscape paintings of the west of Ireland, Paul Henry (1876-1958) provides the quintessential view of the Irish scene, now as universally familiar as Cezanne's view of Provence or Constable's recording of Suffolk. Henry stands alone as the most influential landscapist to work in Ireland in the twentieth century. In this generously illustrated biography, S. B. Kennedy tells the story of Henry's life and artistic achievements, interweaves the life of his highly talented wife Grace, and explores his friendships and associations in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Dublin, and Belfast. Kennedy offers a full account of Henry's entire career, including his early experience studying under Whistler in fin-de-siecle Paris, his subsequent work as an illustrator in London, and his transforming trip to Achill Island in his native Ireland in 1910. Transfixed by the landscape, the people of the island, and their way of life, Henry thereafter devoted his career to painting Irish life and landscape, introducing a degree of realism that was new to Irish painting. Kennedy also discusses the career of Henry's first wife, Grace (1868-1953), a painter in her own right who here emerges from behind the shadow of her husband as a more substantial figure than has been previously recognized. In addition, the author sets Henry's work in historical context and considers the reasons for renewed interest in Henry's landscape paintings in recent years.
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Washington-Interpretative Essays (Black Studies, V. 4), The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar 1724-1741: Literary and Political Events in Georgian England (Women's Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 33.), On the Erudition of the Historical St. Patrick (Celtic Studies, 2), Modern Japanese Writers Edition 1. (Scribner Writers), Citations and Allusions to Jewish Scripture in Early Christian and Jewish Writings Through 180 C.E., Struggle for Life During the Nazi Occupation of Poland (Symposium Series, Vol 47), The Jesuits and the Joint Mission to England During 1580-1581 (Renaissance Studies, V. 4), Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, Paul HenryTop headlines: A cloud hangs over BlackBerry Storm: After nearly two weeks on the market, the much-anticipated BlackBerry Storm has lived up to its name, with longtime BlackBerry loyalists frustrated by the smartphone's bugginess, sluggishness and user unfriendliness with its three touchscreen keyboards. ›13:47 Ex-FBI agent denies role in 1982 slaying: A Miami judge delayed sentencing Thursday for an ex-FBI agent convicted of second-degree murder in the death of a former Florida gambling executive. ›20:24 7 ways to turn the TV room into a home theater: Here are seven outstanding-for-the-price ways to make your home-movie-viewing experience a whole lot better, categorized by the price of the bundle. ›13:47 Activist vows no retreat against Japan whalers: The leader of a militant conservation group that has skirmished violently with Japanese whalers he will not retreat from confrontation during his bid to stop this season's hunt in Antarctic waters. ›15:46 3 Dec, Wed Indian airports on high alert after warning: Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks. ›21:06 Mortgage rates at lowest level since Jan.: Rates on 30-year mortgages plunged this week to the lowest level since January after the government launched a sweeping new effort to aid the U.S. housing market. ›17:19 Flood washes away barrier project qualms: Monday's deluge Venice's biggest in 22 years may help wash away remaining resistance to an elaborate project to build mobile barriers that will prevent future flooding here. ›19:29 Broken butterfly gets mended, andride south: A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species' famed migration to central Mexico thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama. ›23:11 20 Nov, Thu Is O.J. 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