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Behind Turkish Lattices: The Story of a Turkish Woman's Life Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9781593333072
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
Description:
Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1869-1941), a professor at the American College for Girls in Constantinople from 1900-1909, wrote enthusiastically about the Young Turks who seemed to promise new freedoms for Ottoman women. Jenkins uses her own observations of Constantinople, her students, and their families to construct an account of a "typical" Turkish Muslim woman's life cycle at this turning point in Ottoman history. She directs her comments toward childhood, education, marriage, polygamy, and divorce, in order to correct Western misapprehensions.
Memoirs of Halide Edib Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
ISBN: 9781593333058
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
Description:
A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Edib Adivar (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, while she and her second husband Dr. Adnan were in exile in London and Paris having fallen out of favor with Mustafa Kemal's one-party regime.
Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9781593333041
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
Description:
In this diary recording two voyages to Constantinople, Lady Annie Brassey demonstrates her keen eye for human interest and narrative detail. The modern reader will glimpse natural wonders and cultural distinctions of Portuagal, Spain, Moroco, Italy, Greece, and Turkey during the mid-1870s.
Citizens Defending America Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 364
ISBN: 9780822942641
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2005
Description:
Foreword by John B. Wilt, Colonel (Retired), U.S.
Unveiled Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781593332099
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
Description:
Selma Ekrem grew up among the progressive Ottoman Muslim elite. Ekrem benefited from having an unconventional mother, who did not insist on her daughter's veiling. The book covers the family's sojourns outside Istanbul when her father was governor in Jerusalem during the 1908 Young Turk revolution and then governor of the Greek Archipelago Islands, where the whole family was held captive when their island was taken by the Greeks during the Balkan Wars.
We Fish Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780822958918
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2005
Description:
We Fish is the tale of a father and son's shared dialogue in poetry and in prose, memoir and reflection, as they delight in their time spent fishing while considering the universal challenge of raising good children. Their story and their lesson have the power to teach today's young African American men about friendship, family, and trust; and the potential to save a generation from the dangers of the modern world and from themselves.
Staging Whiteness Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780819567703
Pub Date: 29 Jul 2005
Description:
In Staging Whiteness, Mary Brewer offers close textual readings of plays by American and British 20th century playwrights-both canonical and some that fall outside the mainstream-looking at how whiteness as an identity is created onstage, and how this has changed historically. With clarity and persuasion, Brewer argues that configurations of whiteness are dispersed and reflected through discourses that range from theory to literature and common social language, and that discursive performances of whiteness are a crucial feature of everyday social interactions.Includes discussions of:G.
Disabling Interpretations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780822958796
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2005
Description:
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was intended to send a clear message to society that discrimination on the basis of disability is unacceptable. As with most civil rights laws, the courts were given primary responsibility for implementing disability rights policy.Mezey argues that the act has not fulfilled its potential primarily because of the judiciary's \u0022disabling interpretations\u0022 in adjudicating ADA claims.
Camera Clues Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813191249
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2005
Illustrations: photos, illus
Description:
Nationally known historical investigator Joe Nickell tells us how to identify and date old photos and how to distinguish originals from copies and fakes. He addresses forensic application, "surreptitious photography," and legal concerns. Particularly intriguing is his discussion of camera tricks, darkroom deceptions, retouching techniques, computer technology, and trickery detection.
Framing American Politics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822958642
Pub Date: 08 Jun 2005
Description:
Most issues in American political life are complex and multifaceted, subject to multiple interpretations and points of view. How issues are framed matters enormously for the way they are understood and debated. For example, is affirmative action a just means toward a diverse society, or is it reverse discrimination?
A History of Eastern Kentucky University Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813123462
Pub Date: 20 May 2005
Illustrations: photos
Description:
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, celebrated its centennial in 2006. EKU has had a colorful history, from the political quandaries surrounding the inception of its predecessor institutions to its financial difficulties during the Depression to its maturing as a leading regional university. Reflecting on the social, economic, and cultural changes in the region over the last century, William E.
Emotional Storm Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780819567543
Pub Date: 19 May 2005
Illustrations: 2 illus.
Description:
"When two personalities meet, an emotional storm is created." This provocative quote by renowned psychoanalyst W.R.
Different Paths to Modernity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9789189116542
Pub Date: 01 May 2005
Illustrations: tables
Description:
Over the last 100 years, most European countries have experienced great, and in many cases similar changes. A general term for the phenomenon is 'modernisation', and in this anthology the authors present several different aspects of modernisation and the modernisation revolution. Among other issues, the articles are based on the importance of industrialisation, education and economic development for the success of modernisation.
Institutions And The Fate Of Democracy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780822958703
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2005
Description:
As democracy has swept the globe, the question of why some democracies succeed while others fail has remained a pressing concern. In this theoretically innovative, richly historical study, Michael Bernhard looks at the process by which new democracies choose their political institutions, showing how these fundamental choices shape democracy's survival. Offering a new analytical framework that maps the process by which basic political institu-tions emerge, Bernhard investigates four paradigmatic episodes of democracy in two countries: Germany during the Weimar period and after World War II, and Poland between the world wars and after the fall of communism.
African American Fraternities and Sororities Cover African American Fraternities and Sororities Cover
Format: 
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780813123448
Pub Date: 11 Mar 2005
Illustrations: 30 b&w photos
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780813129655
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2010
Illustrations: 30 b&w photos
Description:
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. Among their ranks are legendary artists, politicians, theologians, inventors, intellectuals, educators, civil rights leaders, and athletes. Offering a comprehensive overview of the historical, cultural, political, and social circumstances that propelled the creation of these groups, African American Fraternities and Sororities references the profound contributions that black Greek-Letter organizations and their members have made to American history.
God's Peculiar People Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9780813191416
Pub Date: 11 Mar 2005
Illustrations: 6 tables
Description:
"Holy Rollers" -- with this epithet most people dismiss members of the Pentecostal sect as wild religious fanatics. In this new study, folklorist Elaine Lawless draws on fieldwork among Pentecostal congregations in the limestone region of southern Indiana to offer a sympathetic view of the Pentecostals as a special group distinguished by their own folk traditions and religious expression.From her findings she describes the members' codes of dress and behavior, their attitudes toward themselves and others, their special use of words, and their distinctive religious practices.