Results for "Green, James"

"The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I've ever read." --John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan

On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were...

Among the prized acquisitions of the Library Company of Philadelphia is the collection of more than 1500 books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and prints once belonging to Pierre Eugène Du Simitière (1737-1784). The collection, which was first displayed in a 1985 exhibition of the Geneva-born...

On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it...

Create a holistic, at-home pharmacy tailored to your lifestyle with this definitive resource for making affordable herbal remedies that can restore gut health, lower blood pressure, combat anxiety, and more, from the renowned herbalist and co-founder of the American Herbalists Guild.

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A compelling introduction to the art of the Nguni diaspora—a pivotal chapter of African history that reshaped societies across southeast Africa and continues to resonate today.

In the early nineteenth century, a period of warfare and political upheaval—triggered in part by the expansion of the Zulu...

In this major new study, James Aaron Green provides the first account of literary thought experiments published from 1878 to 1918 that speculate on the prospect of radically longer lives.

Green argues that these fictions helped negotiate the emergent experiences and meanings of age and aging during...

Herbert Daniel was a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992. As a medical student, he joined a revolutionary guerrilla organization but was forced to conceal his sexual identity from his comrades, a...

From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised...

Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together. Led by Glenn Danzig, a...

A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored.

Close readings of the...