This is a celebration and critical exploration of the complicated musical, cultural and political roles played by the song "America" over the last 250 years. Popularly known as "My Country 'tis of Thee" - and as "God Save the King/Queen" before that - this song has great political importance. The text chronicles the song's appropriation and ...
This book probes the discrepancies separating President Bush's stated reasons for waging war on Iraq, the deeper political and economic reasons for the invasion, and the consequences of the Bush administration's policies for the future of globalization. As the reconstruction of Iraq wobbles forward, tarnished by waves of deadly bombings and ...
Merging the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research, this text provides both a critique of the prison industrial complex and a method of qualitative research. Based on 10 years of teaching in, writing about and protesting at prisons across America, the author weaves together the hopes of prisoners, their families and friends, with the ...
In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the 'cultural fictions' that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making. Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials - including ...
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