Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question,…
In 2007, the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact that…
During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame."…
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communitie…
On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the…
As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball's color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rival…
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Legacy of Exceptionalism -- 2. Standard Routes, Standard Highways -- 3. Cities and Their Volcanoes -- 4. Green Consumerism and the Volcanoes -- 5. Wilderness a…
Introduction ; To hell and back (the present) ; Gisèle d'Estoc and World War II (the 1930s) ; A storm in a teacup and a bomb in a flowerpot (the 1890s) ; An interlude (no time in particular) ; Gisèle d'Estoc when she was real (the 1870s) ; Gisèle d'Estoc and who she wasn't (the …
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Situating Regeneration: Medicine, Science, and "Modern" Bodies -- 2. Regenerating Space: Destruction and Divided Communities -- 3. Regenerating Space, Part 2: Not All Ghettoes A…
<![CDATA["With tremendous empathy, warm humor, and trained insight, Native scholar and ethnographer Alexis Bunten embedded herself for a summer season in her own [Alaska Native] people's cultural tourism industry. After working as a tourist guide, she produced this absolutely or…
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology -- Introduction -- 1 Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial Texas -- 2 The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars,…
