Search Results - "TheStreet"

Three-Way Street : Jews, Germans, and the Transnational /

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Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret : Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication / by Kearns, Michael S., 1947-

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Street Politics in the Age of Austerity : From the Indignados to Occupy /

Table of Contents: “…Social Movements and Political Moments; Reflections on the Intersections of Global Justice Movements & Occupy Wall Street; Jackie Smith.…”
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Beacon Hill : The Life and Times of a Neighborhood / by Li-Marcus, Moying, 1954-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance : Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna / by Terpstra, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Down and out and off the streets: sheltering Renaissance children -- Opening a home -- Entering a home: prescriptions and procedures -- Making a home with girls -- Making a home with boys -- Running a home -- Leaving home -- The politics of Renaissance orphanages.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Boston Riots : Three Centuries of Social Violence / by Tager, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century setting -- A variety of Riots: Food, Customs, Antielite, and Pope Day Riots -- The Impressment Riot of 1747 -- Antebellum Boston: Norm Enforcement, Race, and Abolition Riots -- Anti-Catholic Rioting in Antebellum Boston: The Ursuline Convent and the Broad Street Riots -- Anti-Catholic Tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863 -- The 1919 Police Strike Riots -- Ghetto Riots, 1967-1968 -- Antibusing Riots, Fall 1974 -- Antibusing Riots, 1975-1976 -- Conclusion -- Index.…”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…From low-obscure beginnings raysde to fame : critical and historical contexts of the Lord Mayor's Show -- Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye : the writers, the artificers and the livery companies -- A day of well compos'd variety of speach and shew : bringing the shows to life -- A briefe narration of each seuerall shew : the show from street to print -- To prune and dresse the tree of gouernment : political and contemporary contexts of the shows -- Appendices. …”
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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited.…”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

Table of Contents: “…American Jewish business : at the street level / Hasia R. Diner -- 2. Common fortunes : social and financial gains of Jewish and Christian partnerships in eighteenth-century Transatlantic trade / Allan M. …”
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Disordering the Establishment : Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981 / by Woodruff, Lily, 1981-

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The Lumbee Indians : An American Struggle / by Lowery, Malinda Maynor

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PREFACE; A GENEALOGY; Interlude: Watts Street Elementary School, Durham, North Carolina, 1978; INTRODUCTION; Interlude: What Are You?…”
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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

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In Search of the Free Individual : The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul / by Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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Global Diffusion of Protest : Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis /

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