... M., 1995, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, London Kayser, M., Choi, Y., Oven, M., Brauer, S., Trent, R., Suarkia, D., Schiefenhovel, ... J. Baylis and S. Smith (pp.
Samuel Bowles , for example , editor of the Springfield , Massachusetts , Republican , visited Yosemite Valley in 1864 and returned east full of enthusiasm for preserving important eastern natural sites . Among other places , including ...
Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990); Grossman, Land of Hope; Wilbert L. Jenkins, Seizing the ...
This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks.
The controversial study by a young radical economist of the transformation of the workplace-- where today impersonal bureaucracies legitimate hierarchies and enhance the employer's control over the worker.
Contested Terrain
CONTESTED TERRAIN captures the myriad identities inside a veteran shaped by birth, geography and, later, a set of experiences that belie any hand-me-down wisdom. ¿Cave Country¿ sees the green, fertile surface give way as the illusion ...
This in-depth study focuses on black women migrants to the North and in doing so examines the interaction of race, class, regionalism, and gender during the early years of the 20th century.
A challenge to the way we think about writing on university campuses
Essays pointing to the volatility of suburban politics, and their impact on economic and social life.
The Southwest has long beckoned the artist. But too often, art made by Euro-Americans drawn to this region has either "basked in the sunny celebration of the picturesque, the exotic,...
Jamila and Marzia hope that readers of Contested Terrain might become allies in realizing their visions for Afghanistan. I hope that their views might inform public perceptions of the U.S. government's long-term obligations to ...
This classic volume deserves pride of place on any Adirondack bookshelf; it is the preeminent history of these mountains. Written for a general audience, Contested Terrain shows how expectations about...
Since 1991, there has been renewed debate in Ethiopia concerning the implication of the country s past for the present polity. The long-standing debate was given an added impetus by...
... Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (New York: Verso, 1989), 181. 40. See ... Suburban Spaces, 147–57. Drawing on “critical hospitality” theory, George argues, “The fictional family, and the marital ...
In Contested Terrain, a team of historians and sociologists confront the scholarship of power that dismisses politically engaged scholarship in the name of academic objectivity.
Contested Terrain: Land Reform and Civil Society in Contemporary Zimbabwe