That Damned Fence. The Literature of the Japanese American Prison Camps, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Heather (Professor of English, Professor of English, Marquette University) HathawayIllustration(s)...

Reducere. DescriptionA Japanese American woman's life in US internment camps and post-war JapanThe Block Manager is the gripping memoir of Janet, an American...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth Carolyn MillerIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dim...

Reducere. Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese Am...

Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sa...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 6 b/w illus.Numb...

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different ...

Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - ar...

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

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This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World Wa...

Reducere. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, ...

Reducere. To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine prese...

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents ...

Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relation...

With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship w...

A second blistering crime novel set in France's most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on SpiralP...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

A revised and enhanced new edition of this classic work, filling an important gap in maritime historyPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Ric...

Reducere. Cultural Writing. Asian-American Studies. Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, more than 100, 000 Japanese Americans were uprooted fro...

DescriptionNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 One of President Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 Winner of the Helen Bernstein Bo...

Two detectives find themselves confronting three decades of perversion, corruption and murder in a case that stretches from the streets of Sheffiel...

Reducere. In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack a...

Reducere. Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a household name in Japan, became the prime catalyst behind the incredible success of Japanese industry. In fact, since 1951...

Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and racePublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Nicholas Gu...

Reducere. NOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.Under the cover of night...

As one of a handful of UK police officers trained in SAS deep-cover surveillance, David Corbett infiltrated the toughest communities, living among ...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): D J VodickaNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...