Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentuckys loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincolns judge advocate general.
In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement.
In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (18951973).
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (18941984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar Americas foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs.
Vance Packards bestselling books Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960) taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence.
Theodore Parker (18101860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for womens rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people words that inspired Abraham Lincoln.
Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander#### explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies.
Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending antideath penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions.
Thomas Nast (18401902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment.
Few men in Americas intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America, expecially in its progressive epoch, had no inclination to receive.
Wilhelm II (18591941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany.
Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance.
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (18941984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar Americas foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs.
Wilhelm II (18591941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany.
Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth.
This is the first complete edition of the Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis, a contemporary narrative that provides valuable insights into medieval war and diplomacy, written at Canterbury shortly after the mid-fourteenth century.
Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of the analytic tradition.
'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seward and Stanton comes the definitive biography of John Jay: "e;Wonderful"e; (Walter Isaacson, New York Times-bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci).
Unschooling, a learner-centred educational philosophy, breaks away from the confines of traditional schooling, advocating for a more organic, child-centric approach.
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Augsburg (American Studies), course: First Ladies, language: English, abstract: This work will focus on the two latest First Ladies, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump.
Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject American Studies - Literature, , course: PhD, language: English, abstract: The present study deals with Christopher Isherwood's manipulation of the concept of rebellion in his most prominent novel "e;A Single Man"e; (1964).
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: Gegenstand der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit ist eine ubergreifende Analyse des Films "e;Get Out"e; (unter der Regie von Jordan Peele, 2017).
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: When the British comedy-drama series Sex Education debuted on Netflix in 2020 (with three further seasons following in 2020, 2021and 2023), screenwriter Laurie Nunn's show was welcomed by critics and audiences alike as an innovative addition to the often rather formulaic canon of cinematic teen narratives.
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: English is the leading language of international discourse, mainstream media and is spoken in.
