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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20, no. 2
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2017

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles
Jessy J. Ohl, "In Pursuit of Light War in Libya: Kairotic Justifications of War That Just Happened"
Jeffrey St. Onge, "Operation Coffeecup: Ronald Reagan, Rugged Individualism, and the Debate over 'Socialized Medicine'”
Sarah Kornfield, "Fixating on the Stasis of Fact: Debating 'Having It All' in U.S. Media"
Stephen J. Hartnett, Bryan R. Reckard, "Sovereign Tropes: A Rhetorical Critique of Contested Claims in the South China Sea"

Review Essay
Ned O'Gorman , Katie P. Bruner, Paul R. McKean, Matthew C. Pitchford, Nikki R. Weickum, "Old Rhetoric and New Media"

Book Reviews
Greg Dickinson, Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life, reviewed by Andrew F. Wood
Nathan Crick, Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece, reviewed by Kristine Bruss
Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen, Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship, reviewed by Sara R. Kitsch
James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, reviewed by Sarah Burgess
Jenell Johnson, American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History, reviewed by Jordynn Jack
Nathan Stormer, Signs of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s, reviewed by S. Scott Graham
Risa Applegarth, Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science, reviewed by Ann George
Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century, reviewed by Kathleen M. De Oníz

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20, no. 3
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2017

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles
Kelly Jakes, "Songs of Our Fathers: Gender and Nationhood at the Liberation of France"
Pamela Conners, "Constructing Economic and Civic Values through Public Policy Debate: The Case of the National Housing Act of 1934"
Stephen M. Underhill, "Prisoner of Context: The Truman Doctrine Speech and J. Edgar Hoover’s Rhetorical Realism"

Forum
Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Forum on the 2016 Presidential Primary: Rhetoric, Identity, and Presidentiality in the Post-Obama Era"
Robert E. Terrill, "The Post-Racial and Post-Ethical Discourse of Donald J. Trump"
J. David Cisneros, "Racial Presidentialities: Narratives of Latinxs in the 2016 Campaign"
Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Presidential Pioneer or Campaign Queen? Hillary Clinton and the First-Timer/Frontrunner Double Bind"
Mary E. Stuckey, "Dynasties and Democracy"
Jonathan P. Rossing, "No Joke: Silent Jesters and Comedic Refusals"

Book Reviews
Mari Lee Mifsud, Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication, reviewed by Michele Kennerly
Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis, The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes, reviewed by Trevor C. Meyer
Greg Goodale, The Rhetorical Invention of Man: A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals, reviewed by Mary Trachsel
Robert Hariman and Ralph Cintron, Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action, reviewed by José G. Izaguirre, III

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20, no. 4
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2017

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles
Allison M. Prasch, Julia Scatliff O’Grady, "Saluting the 'Skutnik': Special Guests, the First Lady’s Box, and the Generic Evolution of the State of the Union Address"
Mike Milford, "Veiled Intervention: Anti-Semitism, Allegory, and Captain America"
Robert C. Rowland, John M. Jones, "Reagan’s Farewell Address: Redefining the American Dream"

Forum
Mary E. Stuckey, "American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change: Hyperbole, Anger, and Hope in U.S. Politics"
Denise M. Bostdorff, "Obama, Trump, and Reflections on the Rhetoric of Political Change"
Robert L. Ivie, "Trump’s Unwitting Prophecy"
Michael J. Lee, "Considering Political Identity: Conservatives, Republicans, and Donald Trump"

Review Essay
Christy-Dale L. Sims, "Performing Native Rhetorics of Resistance and Identity"

Book Reviews
Robert Danisch, Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism, reviewed by Craig Rood
Michael Warren Tumolo, Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment, reviewed by Bradley A. Serber
Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation, reviewed by J. David Cisneros
Janice W. Fernheimer, Stepping into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity, reviewed by Dana Anderson
Monte Harrell Hampton, Storm of Words: Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era , reviewed by Thomas M. Lessl

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 21, no. 1
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2018

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles
Denise M. Bostdorff and Daniel J. O’Rourke, "Religion, Sport, and the Return of the Prodigal Son: The Postsecular Rhetoric of LeBron James’s 2014 'I’m Coming Home' Open Letter"
G. Mitchell Reyes, David P. Schulz, and Zoe Hovland, "When Memory and Sexuality Collide: The Homosentimental Style of Gay Liberation"
Adam J. Gaffey and Jennifer L. Jones Barbour, “'A Spirit That Can Never Be Told': Commemorative Agency and the Texas A&M University Bonfire Memorial"
Randall Fowler, “'Caliphate' against the Crown: Martyrdom, Heresy, and the Rhetoric of Enemyship in the Kingdom of Jordan"

Review Essay
Eric Scott Jenkins, "Materialism(s) in Recent Visual Rhetorical Histories: A Commentary"

Book Reviews
David Greenberg, Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency, reviewed by Mary E. Stuckey
Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer, eds., The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy, reviewed by Justin Kirk
Barry Brummett, ed., Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk, reviewed by Andrea J. Severson
Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Gody-Anativia, eds., Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era, reviewed by Evan Beaumont Center
Gina L. Ercolini, Kant’s Philosophy of Communication, reviewed by Nathan Crick
Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, reviewed by T. Jake Dionne
Anthony M. Wachs, The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan’s Message for Our Modern Moment, reviewed by Corey Anton
Rebecca S. Richards, Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics: From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies, reviewed by Tiara R. Na’puti

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 21, no. 2
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2018

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles
Laura A. Stengrim, "One World: Wendell Willkie’s Rhetoric of Globalism in the World War II Era"
Harriette Kevill-Davies, "Children Crusading against Communism: Mobilizing Boys as Citizen Soldiers in the Early Cold War State"
Tiffany Lewis, "The Mountaineering and Wilderness Rhetorics of Washington Woman Suffragists"
Davida Charney, "The Short and the Long of It: Rhetorical Amplitude at Gettysburg"

Review Essay
Christopher J. Gilbert, "War Comics"

Book Reviews
Cara A. Finnegan, Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression, reviewed by Ekaterina V. Haskins
J. Christian Spielvogel, Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields, reviewed by Michael Warren Tumolo
Robert Asen, Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, reviewed by Mark Hlavacik
S. Scott Graham, The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry, reviewed by Lynda Walsh
Mary E. Stuckey, Political Rhetoric, reviewed by Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury
Robert E. Terrill, Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship, reviewed by David A. Frank
Stephen Howard Browne, The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis, reviewed by Allison M. Prasch
Leroy G. Dorsey, Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governor’s Conference, reviewed by Samuel Perry
James L. Kastely, The Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion, reviewed by John J. Jasso

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 21, no. 3
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2018

ARTICLES
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress and Public Policy Advocacy for African Colonization
BJØRN F. STILLION SOUTHARD

The Judicial Character of Late Liberal Prudence: Paul v. Davis
TIMOTHY BAROUCH

Laboring to Belong: Differentiation, Spatial Relocation, and the Ironic Presence of (Un)Documented Immigrants in the United Farm Workers “Take Our Jobs” Campaign
LISA A. FLORES

Driving the Three-Horse Team of Government: Kairos in FDR’s Judiciary Fireside Chat
DONOVAN BISBEE

REVIEW ESSAY
Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies
JOSHUA P. EWALT

BOOK REVIEWS
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship
LAURIE E. GRIES

Heather Ashley Hayes, Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars
TIMOTHY BARNEY

E. Johanna Hartelius, ed., The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness
JENNIFER J. ASENAS AND KEVIN A. JOHNSON

Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak
SKYE DE SAINT FELIX

Donna M. Kowal, Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question
KATE ZITTLOW ROGNESS

Carol Mattingly, Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century
SARA A. MEHLTRETTER DRURY

John Kyle Day, The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
DAVIS W. HOUCK

Jane S. Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud, eds., A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric
JAIME LANE WRIGHT

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 21, no. 4
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2018

In This Issue

ARTICLES
Puritanism, Islam, and Race in Cotton Mather’s The Glory of Goodness: An Exercise in Exceptionalism
RANDALL FOWLER

Gridlock and Rhetorics of Distrust
JOHN ROUNTREE

Technologies of the State: Transvaginal Ultrasounds and the Abortion Debate
AMANDA M. FRIZ

CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND SCHOLARSHIP OF ROBERT P. NEWMAN, 1922–2018
Newman’s Isocratic Protrepticus
GORDON R. MITCHELL

Rational Model for Analyzing U.S. Foreign Policy Advocates and Decision Makers: The Newman Legacy
CAROL WINKLER

Truth in Politics: Newman and Newman’s Evidence
MICHAEL WEILER

Memories of Robert Newman: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor
MARILYN J. YOUNG

BOOK REVIEWS
Mark Hlavacik, Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform
STEPHEN SCHNEIDER

Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy, Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse
JESSICA M. PRODY

Jefferson Walker, King Returns to Washington
JENNIFER BIEDENDORF

Shawn J. Parry-Giles and David S. Kaufer, Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard, Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method
HEATHER ASHLEY HAYES

Rasha Diab, Shades of Sulh: The Rhetoric of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation
ARABELLA LYON

Paul Baines and Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Propaganda
ALLISON NIEBAUR AND BENJAMIN FIRGENS

Victor Klemperer and Martin Brady, The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook
JERRY BLITEFIELD

Richard Flower, Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective
JORDAN LOVERIDGE

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 22, no. 1
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2019

In This Issue

Articles
Michael L. Butterworth, "George W. Bush as the 'Man in the Arena': Baseball, Public Memory, and the Rhetorical Redemption of a President"

Eric C. Miller and James E. Towns, “'The Protestant Contention': Religious Freedom, Respectability Politics, and W. A. Criswell in 1960"

Katie L. Garahan, "The Public Work of Identity Performance: Advocacy and Dissent in Teachers’ Open Letters"

Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli, "Scientist Citizens: Rhetoric and Responsibility in L’Aquila"

Review Essay
Jason Edward Black and Vernon Ray Harrison, "On Contemporary Contours of Public Memory"

Book Review
Candice Rai, Democracy’s Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention, reviewed by Bridie McGreavy

Elizabeth Benacka, Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert, reviewed by Michael Phillips-Anderson

Michael Donnelly, Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States, reviewed by Matthew A. Ray

Cheryl Glenn and Andrea Lunsford, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Feminism, 1973–2000, reviewed by Rosalyn Collings Eves

Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones, Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric, reviewed by Brittany Knutson

Robin E. Jensen, Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term, reviewed by Tasha N. Dubriwny

Jiyeon Kang, Igniting the Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea, reviewed by Damien Smith-Pfister

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 22, no. 2
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2019

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 22, no. 3
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2019

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 22, no. 4
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2019

In This Issue

Martin J. Medhurst, "Editor’s Note"

Articles
Megan Fitzmaurice, "Recirculating Memories of the Presidents as Benevolent Slaveholders on Presidential Slavery Tours"

Ashley P. Ferrell, “'Righting Past Wrongs': Rhetorical Disidentification and Historical Reference in Response to Philadelphia’s Opioid Epidemic"

G. Mitchell Reyes, "Algorithms and Rhetorical Inquiry: The Case of the 2008 Financial Collapse"

Anne Demo, "Documenting Death by Policy: Public Grievability, Migrant Lives, and Commonplace Denials"

Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Robert L. Scott, 1928–2018
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, "Robert L. Scott"

Robert Hariman, "Tribute to Robert L. Scott"

Barry Brummett, "Scott’s Body"

Martin J. Medhurst, "Robert L. Scott: Memories of a Great Man"

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 23, no. 1
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2020

In This Issue
Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp and Darwin D. Jorgensen, "'To Fly Under Borrowed Colours': Insulin Discovery Accounts, Scientific Credit, and the Nobel Prize"

Dominic J. Manthey, "A Vision of Violence in General Orders No. 100"

John M. Murphy, "The Sunshine of Human Rights: Hubert Humphrey at the 1948 Democratic Convention"

Denise M. Bostdorff and Steven R. Goldzwig, "Barack Obama’s Eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, June 26, 2015: Grace as the Vehicle for Collective Salvation and Obama’s Agency on Civil Rights"

Mattilyn Egli, "Index to Rhetoric & Public Affairs: Volume 16 (2013)—Volume 22 (2019)"

Book Reviews
Helene A. Shugart, Heavy: The Obesity Crisis in Cultural Context, reviewed by Casey Ryan Kelly

Jeff Rice, Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer, reviewed by Antonio Ceraso

Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics, reviewed by Talya Peri Slaw

Christa Teston, Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty, reviewed by Rachel Bloom-Pojar

Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, and Beverly Wilson Palmer, Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons, reviewed by Jane Donawerth and Emily Smith

Tom F. Wright, Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons, 1830–1870, reviewed by Carly S. Woods

Mark Ward Sr., The Lord’s Radio: Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920–1960, reviewed by Gregory Perreault

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 23, no. 2
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2020

In This Issue

Articles
Casey Ryan Kelly, "Donald J. Trump and the Rhetoric of White Ambivalence"

Elizabeth Ellis Miller, "From Enclave to Counterpublic: Doubled Rhetorical Space and the Civil Rights Mass Meeting"

Kristina M. Lee, "Theistnormativity and the Negation of American Atheists in Presidential Inaugural Addresses"

Jim Webber, "'The Magic of Philanthropy': The Gates Foundation’s Reframing of Education Reform Debate"

Camille Kaminski Lewis, "'I Come from Georgia': Andrew Cobb Erwin’s Southern Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan"

Review Essay
Devin Scott, "A Way Forward: Reflections on the Presidency and Presidential Campaigns"

Book Reviews
Lars Burman, Eloquent Students: Rhetorical Practices at the Uppsala Student Nations 1663–2010, reviewed by Cory Geraths

Elizabeth Mazzolini, Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology, reviewed by Chelsea Graham

Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Peter K. Bsumek, and Jennifer Peeples, Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism, reviewed by Sean Kennedy

Robert Terrill, Reconsidering Obama: Reflections on Rhetoric, reviewed by Jessica Boykin and Keith D. Miller

Steven Mailloux, Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics, reviewed by Robert Danisch

M. Elizabeth Weiser, Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces, reviewed by Patricia G. Davis

Leland G. Spencer, Women Bishops and Rhetorics of Shalom: A Whole Peace, reviewed by Rasha Diab

Judi Atkins and John Gaffney, Voices of the UK Left: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Performance of Politics, reviewed by Elizabeth R. Earle

Bryan J. McCann, The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, reviewed by Suzanne Marie Enck

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 23, no. 3
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2020

In This Issue

Articles
Jeremy R. Grossman, "The Catastrophe to Come: Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina’s Public Memory through the Anxious Melancholic Rhetoric of 'The Big One'"

Randall Fowler, "Reagan and Israel: Heroic Democracy in the Holy Land"

Katie P. Bruner, "A Technocratic Machine: The Memex as Rhetorical Invention"

Forum
John B. Hatch, "Racial Reconciliation Revisited"

Mark Lawrence McPhail, "(Re)-Signing Reconciliation: Reading Obama’s Charleston Eulogy through a Rhetorical Theory of Adaptive Racism"

David A. Frank, "The Complicity of Racial and Rhetorical Pessimism: The Coherence and Promise of the Long Civil Rights Movement"

John B. Hatch, "'Childish Things': Tragic Conservatism, White Evangelicalism, and the Challenge of Racial Reconciliation"

Book Reviews
Philip Arrington Eugene, Eloquence Divine: In Search of God’s Rhetoric, reviewed by William T. FitzGerald

Daniel M. Gross, Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion Between Science and the Humanities, reviewed by Kyle Jensen

Stephen J. Hartnett, Lisa B. Keränen, and Donovan Conley, Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization, reviewed by Dongjing Kang

Robin Reames, Logos Without Rhetoric: Arts of Language before Plato, reviewed by Wilfred E. Major

Nathan Crick, The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism, reviewed by Sean Ross Meehan

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 23, no. 4
Martin J. Medhurst
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2020

In This Issue

Introduction
Mary E. Stuckey, "From the Interim Editor"

Articles
Don Waisanen and Judith Kafka, "Conflicting Purposes in U.S. School Reform: The Paradoxes of Arne Duncan’s Educational Rhetoric"

Michael Reimer, "Zionism’s 'Mighty Leap': A Rhetorical History of Dr. Karpel Lippe’s Address to the First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897"

Misti Yang, "Defending Cyberspace: Reexamining Security Metaphors in the Internet Era"

Noor Ghazal Aswad and Antonio de Velasco, "Redemptive Exclusion: A Case Study of Nikki Haley’s Rhetoric on Syrian Refugees"

Book Reviews
Richard J. Jensen, Social Controversy and Public Address in the 1960s and Early 1970s: A Rhetorical History of the United States. Significant Moments in American Public Discourse, reviewed by John M. Murphy

James Wynn Tuscaloosa, Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement, reviewed by Karen Schroeder Sorensen

Melanie Loehwing, Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home, reviewed by Jay P. Childers

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, reviewed by Adam J. Gaffey

Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister, Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks, reviewed by Chris Ingraham

Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry Jr., and Samantha Senda-Cook, Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches, reviewed by Jason Ludden

Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob, Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, & Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century, reviewed by Laura L. Mielke

Mary E. Stuckey, Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument, reviewed by Anne C. Pluta

Jeremy David Engels, The Art of Gratitude, reviewed by Nathan Stormer

Randall Fowler, More than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East, reviewed by Chris Tudda

Craig Rood, After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock, reviewed by Christopher M. Duerringer

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 24, no. 3
Mary E. Stuckey
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2021

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 24, no. 4
Mary E. Stuckey
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2021

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 24, nos. 1-2
Mary E. Stuckey
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2021

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 25, no. 1
Catherine L. Langford
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2022

In This Issue

Articles
“Guided by Ghosts of the Post-Civil War Era”: Felon Disenfranchisement and the Limits of Race Liberal Advocacy
   Chris S. Earle
Monkey Business in a Kangaroo Court: Reimagining Naruto v. Slater as a Litigious Event
   S. Marek Muller
“Imitation (In)Security” and the Polysemy of Russian Disinformation: A Case Study in How IRA Trolls Targeted U.S. Military Veterans
   Hamilton Bean, Stephen J. Hartnett, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Haadi Jafarian, and Alex Koutsoukos
They Spoke in Defense of Roy Moore: Networked Apologia and Media Ecosystems
   Jacob Justice and Brett Bricker

Book Reviews
Roger C. Aden, ed., Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories
Reviewed by Daniel M. Chick
John Oddo, The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror
   Reviewed by Yishan Wang
Kristen Hoerl, The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
   Reviewed by David P. Schulz
Gary A. Remer, Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality
   Reviewed by Robert W. Cape, Jr.
Amos Kiewe, Andrew Jackson: A Rhetorical Portrayal of Presidential Leadership
   Reviewed by Jacob Justice

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs 25, no. 2
Catherine L. Langford
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2022

In This Issue

Articles
The White Power of White Space: Rhetorical Collusion and Discriminatory Design in the Obama-Trump Inauguration Photo
   Lee M. Pierce

Protection Narratives and the Problem of Gun Suicide
   Craig Rood

Reckoning with Tlatelolco: Arturo Rosenblueth and a Cybernetic Rhetoric
   José G. Izaguirre III

The Rhetoric of Narcissism: Trump’s Tweets on Writing
   William J. Berg

Book Reviews
Cara A. Finnegan, Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital
   Kendall R. Phillips

Catalina M. de Onís, Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico
   Nicolas Hernandez and Danielle Endres

Alan G. Gross, The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe
   Andrew C. Hansen

Laura L. Mielke, Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States
   Angela G. Ray

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Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900 - 1985
James A. Berlin
Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
Library of Congress PE1405.U6B466 1987 | Dewey Decimal 808.042071173

Berlin here continues his unique history of American college composition begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century.

In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up of three categories: objective rhetorics, subjective rhetorics, and transactional rhetorics, which are distinguished by the epistemology on which each is based. He makes clear that these categories are not tied to a chronology but instead are to be found in the English department in one form or another during each decade of the century.

His historical treatment includes an examination of the formation of the English department, the founding of the NCTE and its role in writing instruction, the training of teachers of writing, the effects of progressive education on writing instruction, the General Education Movement, the appearance of the CCCC, the impact of Sputnik, and today’s “literacy crisis.”

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Rhetoric and Scripture: Collected Essays of Thomas H. Olbricht
Thomas H. Olbricht
SBL Press, 2021
Library of Congress BS2545.R54O53 2021 | Dewey Decimal 220.66

This book offers a unique overview of the development of rhetorical criticism both in North America and internationally through the work of pioneering New Testament scholar Thomas H. Olbricht. Lauri Thurén has gathered nineteen of Olbricht's essays as a guidebook to rhetorical criticism for students, clergy, and scholars. The range of essays from throughout Olbricht's career illuminate the history of rhetorical criticism and reflect the different motivations of ancient and contemporary rhetorical approaches. Essays focus on the history of biblical rhetorical analysis, the rhetorical analysis of biblical texts, the characteristics of rhetorical analysis, and types of biblical rhetorical criticism. A foreword by Thurén and a memorial essay by Carl R. Holladay contextualize Olbricht's work. Anyone interested in the rhetorical study of the New Testament will find this volume inspiring and informative.

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Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America
Mark Garrett Longaker
University of Alabama Press, 2007
Library of Congress PE1405.U6L66 2007 | Dewey Decimal 808.0071173

Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.

Contemporary efforts to revitalize the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, economic, and religious agendas that drove the various—and often conflicting—curricula and contrasting visions of what good citizenship entails. Mark Garrett Longaker argues that higher education more than 200 years ago allowed actors with differing political and economic interests to wrestle over the fate of American citizenship. Then, as today, there was widespread agreement that civic training was essential in higher education, but there were also sharp differences in the various visions of what proper republic citizenship entailed and how to prepare for it.

Longaker studies in detail the specific trends in rhetorical education offered at various early institutions—such as Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and William and Mary—with analyses of student lecture notes, classroom activities, disputation exercises, reading lists, lecture outlines, and literary society records. These documents reveal an extraordinary range of economic and philosophical interests and allegiances—agrarian, commercial, spiritual, communal, and belletristic—specific to each institution. The findings challenge and complicate a widely held belief that early-American civic education occurred in a halcyon era of united democratic republicanism. Recognition that there are multiple ways to practice democratic citizenship and to enact democratic discourse, historically as well as today, best serves the goal of civic education, Longaker argues.

Rhetoric and the Republic illuminates an important historical moment in the history of American education and dramatically highlights rhetorical education as a key site in the construction of democracy.

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Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics
Edited by Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford
Southern Illinois University Press, 2017
Library of Congress P301.5.S63R484 2017 | Dewey Decimal 808

This collection of essays investigates the historiography of rhetoric, global perspectives on rhetoric, and the teaching of writing and rhetoric, offering diverse viewpoints. Addressing four major areas of research in rhetoric and writing studies, contributors consider authorship and audience, discuss the context and material conditions in which students compose, cover the politics of the field and the value of a rhetorical education, and reflect on contemporary trends in canon diversification. Providing both retrospective and prospective assessments, Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century offers original research by important figures in the field.

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Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition
Ernesto Grassi. Foreword by Timothy W. Crusius
Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
Library of Congress PN175.G68 2001 | Dewey Decimal 808.001

Originally published in English in 1980, Rhetoric as Philosophy has been out of print for some time. The reviews of that English edition attest to the importance of Ernesto Grassi’s work.

By going back to the Italian humanist tradition and aspects of earlier Greek and Latin thought, Ernesto Grassi develops a conception of rhetoric as the basis of philosophy. Grassi explores the sense in which the first principles of rational thought come from the metaphorical power of the word. He finds the basis for his conception in the last great thinker of the Italian humanist tradition, Giambattista Vico (1668–1744). He concentrates on Vico’s understanding of imagination and the sense of human ingenuity contained in metaphor. For Grassi, rhetorical activity is the essence and inner life of thought when connected to the metaphorical power of the word.

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Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947
David Gold
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Library of Congress PE1405.U6G65 2008 | Dewey Decimal 808.042071173

Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947 examines the rhetorical education of African American, female, and working-class college students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rich case studies in this work encourage a reconceptualization of both the history of rhetoric and composition and the ways we make use of it.

Author David Gold uses archival materials to study three types of institutions historically underrepresented in disciplinary histories: a black liberal arts college in rural East Texas (Wiley College); a public women's college (Texas Woman's University); and an independent teacher training school (East Texas Normal College). The case studies complement and challenge previous disciplinary histories and suggest that the epistemological schema that have long applied to pedagogical practices may actually limit our understanding of those practices.

Gold argues that each of these schools championed intellectual and pedagogical traditions that differed from the Eastern liberal arts model—a model that often serves as the standard bearer for rhetorical education. He demonstrates that by emphasizing community uplift and civic participation and attending to local needs, these schools created contexts in which otherwise moribund curricular features of the era—such as strict classroom discipline and an emphasis on prescription—took on new possibilities.

Rhetoric at the Margins describes the recent revisionist turn in rhetoric and composition historiography, argues for the importance of diverse institutional microhistories, and argues that the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offer rich lessons for contemporary classroom practice. The study brings alive the voices of black, female, rural, Southern, and first-generation college students and their instructors, effectively linking these histories to the history of rhetoric and writing. Appendices include excerpts of important and rarely seen primary source material, allowing readers to experience in fuller detail the voices captured in this work.

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Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science
Applegarth
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014
Library of Congress GN308.A66 2014 | Dewey Decimal 301.014

In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the “welcoming science,” uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the “rhetorical archeology” of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists. Applegarth examines the crucial role of ethnographic genres in determining scientific status and recovers the work of marginalized anthropologists who developed alternative forms of scientific writing.

Applegarth analyzes scores of ethnographic monographs to demonstrate how early anthropologists intensified the constraints of genre to define their community and limit the aims and methods of their science. But in the 1920s and 1930s, professional researchers sidelined by the academy persisted in challenging the field’s boundaries, developing unique rhetorical practices and experimenting with alternative genres that in turn greatly expanded the epistemology of the field. Applegarth demonstrates how these writers’ folklore collections, ethnographic novels, and autobiographies of fieldwork experiences reopened debates over how scientific knowledge was made: through what human relationships, by what bodies, and for what ends. Linking early anthropologists’ ethnographic strategies to contemporary theories of rhetoric and composition, Rhetoric in American Anthropology provides a fascinating account of the emergence of a new discipline and reveals powerful intersections among gender, genre, and science.

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Rhetoric, Independence, and Nationhood, 1760–1800, Volume II
Stephen E Lucas
Michigan State University Press, 2022
Library of Congress P301.5.P67R487 2022 | Dewey Decimal 808.0427

Few periods of American history have been studied more extensively or debated more intensely than the last four decades of the eighteenth century, during which the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, won their independence on the battlefield, created the United States Constitution, and implemented a new national government. Scholars have approached these developments from a variety of perspectives—economic, social, political, religious, legal, and diplomatic, to name a few. This volume adopts a rhetorical perspective, which foregrounds the art of effective expression as a means of influencing political perceptions, values, and behaviors. It presents eleven essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars who bring to bear a variety of methods, backgrounds, perspectives, and specializations. The essays illuminate key rhetors, works, controversies, and moments that helped shape American discourse and politics during the years 1760–1800.

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A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbe Sieyes and What is the Third Estate?
William H. Jr. Sewell
Duke University Press, 1994
Library of Congress JN2413.S5S48 1994 | Dewey Decimal 305.50944

What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly’s declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’état.
This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell’s insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes’s thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers—educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet’s highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes’s thought—and to the core of the revolutionary project itself.
Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.

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The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration
David Spurr
Duke University Press, 1993
Library of Congress PR129.D46S68 1993 | Dewey Decimal 809.93358

The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world.
Despite historical differences among British, French, and American versions of colonialism, their rhetoric had much in common. The Rhetoric of Empire identifies these shared features—images, figures of speech, and characteristic lines of argument—and explores them in a wide variety of sources. A former correspondent for the United Press International, the author is equally at home with journalism or critical theory, travel writing or official documents, and his discussion is remarkably comprehensive. Ranging from T. E. Lawrence and Isak Dineson to Hemingway and Naipaul, from Time and the New Yorker to the National Geographic and Le Monde, from journalists such as Didion and Sontag to colonial administrators such as Frederick Lugard and Albert Sarraut, this analysis suggests the degree to which certain rhetorical tactics penetrate the popular as well as official colonial and postcolonial discourse.
Finally, Spurr considers the question: Can the language itself—and with it, Western forms of interpretation--be freed of the exercise of colonial power? This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about—and between—different cultures.

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The Rhetoric of English India
Sara Suleri Goodyear
University of Chicago Press, 1992
Library of Congress PR9484.3.S85 1992 | Dewey Decimal 820.93254

Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority.

"A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."—Jean Sudrann, Choice

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The Rhetoric of Faith: Irenaeus and the Structure of the Adversus Haereses
Scott D. Moringiello
Catholic University of America Press, 2019
Library of Congress BR65.I63A37 2019 | Dewey Decimal 239.3

The Rhetoric of Faith argues that the structure of Irenaeus’s opus magnum, the Adversus Haereses, is the argument of the Adversus Haereses. Through a close reading of the Irenaeus’s text, as well as through a comparison with Greco-Roman rhetorical texts, Scott Moringiello argues that Irenaeus structured his argument around the articles of the faith of the Church and that this structure builds on tropes found in the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition.

The argument focuses on the Adversus Haereses, although it does begin with some discussion to put Irenaeus in the context of second century Christian literature. Moringiello concludes with a discussion of Irenaeus’s Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching.Other scholars have provided introductions to Irenaeus’s work, and other scholars have argued for the structural unity of the Adversus Haereses. No other scholar, though, has argued that the faith of the Church is the basis of Irenaeus’s argument. This argument, then, presents an important contribution to the field of Irenaeus studies.

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The Rhetoric of Pregnancy
Marika Seigel
University of Chicago Press, 2013
Library of Congress RG551.S45 2013 | Dewey Decimal 618.2

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you’re pregnant and can afford one, you’re going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, these guides act as portable mentors for women who want advice on how to navigate each stage of pregnancy. Yet few women consider the effect of these manuals—how they propel their readers into a particular system of care or whether the manual they choose reflects or contradicts current medical thinking.
Using a sophisticated rhetorical analysis, Marika Seigel works to deconstruct pregnancy manuals while also identifying ways to improve communication about pregnancy and healthcare. She traces the manuals’ evolution from early twentieth-century tomes that instructed readers to unquestioningly turn their pregnancy management over to doctors, to those of the women’s health movement that encouraged readers to engage more critically with their care, to modern online sources that sometimes serve commercial interests as much as the mother’s.

The first book-length study of its kind, The Rhetoric of Pregnancy is a must-read for both users and designers of our prenatal systems—doctors and doulas, scholars and activists, and anyone interested in encouraging active, effective engagement.

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The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy
Albert O. Hirschman
Harvard University Press, 1991
Library of Congress JA83.H54 1991 | Dewey Decimal 320.5209

With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years.

Hirschman draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, to democratization and the drive toward universal suffrage in the nineteenth century, and to the welfare state in our own century. In each case he identifies three principal arguments invariably used: (1) the perversity thesis, whereby any action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order is alleged to result in the exact opposite of what was intended; (2) the futility thesis, which predicts that attempts at social transformation will produce no effects whatever—will simply be incapable of making a dent in the status quo; (3) the jeopardy thesis, holding that the cost of the proposed reform is unacceptable because it will endanger previous hard-won accomplishments. He illustrates these propositions by citing writers across the centuries from Alexis de Tocqueville to George Stigler, Herbert Spencer to Jay Forrester, Edmund Burke to Charles Murray. Finally, in a lightning turnabout, he shows that progressives are frequently apt to employ closely related rhetorical postures, which are as biased as their reactionary counterparts. For those who aspire to the genuine dialogue that characterizes a truly democratic society, Hirschman points out that both types of rhetoric function, in effect, as contraptions designed to make debate impossible. In the process, his book makes an original contribution to democratic thought.

The Rhetoric of Reaction is a delightful handbook for all discussions of public affairs, the welfare state, and the history of social, economic, and political thought, whether conducted by ordinary citizens or academics.

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The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion
Kimberly Harrison
Southern Illinois University Press, 2013
Library of Congress E628.H38 2013 | Dewey Decimal 973.7082

During the American Civil War, southern white women found themselves speaking and acting in unfamiliar and tumultuous circumstances. With the war at their doorstep, women who supported the war effort took part in defining what it meant to be, and to behave as, a Confederate through their verbal and nonverbal rhetorics. Though most did not speak from the podium, they viewed themselves as participants in the war effort, indicating that what they did or did not say could matter. Drawing on the rich evidence in women’s Civil War diaries, The Rhetoric of Rebel Women recognizes women’s persuasive activities as contributions to the creation and maintenance of Confederate identity and culture.

Informed by more than one hundred diaries, this study provides insight into how women cultivated rhetorical agency, challenging traditional gender expectations while also upholding a cultural status quo. Author Kimberly Harrison analyzes the rhetorical choices these women made and valued in wartime and postwar interactions with Union officers and soldiers, slaves and former slaves, local community members, and even their God. In their intimate accounts of everyday war, these diarists discussed rhetorical strategies that could impact their safety, their livelihoods, and those of their families. As they faced Union soldiers in attempts to protect their homes and property, diarists saw their actions as not only having local, immediate impact on their well-being but also as reflecting upon their cause and the character of the southern people as a whole. They instructed themselves through their personal writing, allowing insight into how southern women prepared themselves to speak and act in new and contested contexts.

The Rhetoric of Rebel Women highlights the contributions of privileged white southern women in the development of the Confederate national identity, presenting them not as passive observers but as active participants in the war effort.

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The Rhetoric of Remediation
Jane Stanley
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
Library of Congress LD741.S83 2010 | Dewey Decimal 378.16109794

American universities have long professed dismay at the writing proficiency levels of entrants, and the volume of this complaint has been directly correlated to social, political, or economic currents. Many universities, in their rhetoric, have defined high need for remediation as a crisis point in order to garner state funding or to manage admissions.

In The Rhetoric of Remediation, Jane Stanley examines the statements and actions made regarding remediation at the University of California, Berkeley (Cal). Since its inception in 1868, university rhetoric has served to negotiate the tensions between an ethic of access and the assertion of elite status. Great care has been taken to promote the politics of public accessibility, yet in its competition for standing among other institutions, Cal has been publicly critical of the “underpreparedness” of many entrants. Early on, Cal developed programs to teach “Subject A” (Composition) to the vast number of students who lacked basic writing skills.

Stanley documents the evolution of the university's “rhetoric of remediation” at key moments in its history, such as: the early years of “open gate” admissions; the economic panic of the late 1800s and its effect on enrollment; Depression-era battles over funding and the creation of a rival system of regional state colleges; the GI Bill and ensuing post-WWII glut in enrollments; the “Red Scare” and its attacks on faculty, administrators, and students; the Civil Rights Movement and the resultant changes to campus politics; sexist admission policies and a de facto male-quota system; accusations of racism in the instruction of Asian Americans during the 1970s; the effects of an increasing number of students, beginning in the 1980s, for whom English was a second language; and the recent development of the College Writing Program which combined freshmen composition with Subject A instruction, in an effort to remove the concept of remediation altogether.

Setting her discussion within the framework of American higher education, Stanley finds that the rhetorical phenomenon of “embrace-and-disgrace” is not unique to Cal, and her study encourages compositionists to evaluate their own institutional practices and rhetoric of remediation for the benefit of both students and educators.

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The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory
By Peter A. O'Connell
University of Texas Press, 2017
Library of Congress PA3263.O34 2017 | Dewey Decimal 885.0109

In ancient Athenian courts of law, litigants presented their cases before juries of several hundred citizens. Their speeches effectively constituted performances that used the speakers’ appearances, gestures, tones of voice, and emotional appeals as much as their words to persuade the jury. Today, all that remains of Attic forensic speeches from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE are written texts, but, as Peter A. O’Connell convincingly demonstrates in this innovative book, a careful study of the speeches’ rhetoric of seeing can bring their performative aspect to life.

Offering new interpretations of a wide range of Athenian forensic speeches, including detailed discussions of Demosthenes’ On the False Embassy, Aeschines’ Against Ktesiphon, and Lysias’ Against Andocides, O’Connell shows how litigants turned the jurors’ scrutiny to their advantage by manipulating their sense of sight. He analyzes how the litigants’ words work together with their movements and physical appearance, how they exploit the Athenian preference for visual evidence through the language of seeing and showing, and how they plant images in their jurors’ minds. These findings, which draw on ancient rhetorical theories about performance, seeing, and knowledge as well as modern legal discourse analysis, deepen our understanding of Athenian notions of visuality. They also uncover parallels among forensic, medical, sophistic, and historiographic discourses that reflect a shared concern with how listeners come to know what they have not seen.

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The Rhetoric of the "Other" Literature
W. Ross Winterowd
Southern Illinois University Press, 1990
Library of Congress PS366.R44W56 1990 | Dewey Decimal 818.50809

Using traditional and contemporary rhetorical theory, Winterowd argues that the fiction-nonfiction division of literature is unjustified and destructive.

He would bridge the gap between literary scholars and rhetoricians by including both fiction (imaginative literature) and nonfiction (literature of fact) in the canon. The actual difference in literary texts, he notes, lies not in their factuality but in their potential for eliciting an aesthetic response.

With speech act and rhetorical theory as a basis, Winterowd argues that presentational literature gains its power on the basis of its ethical and pathetic appeal, not because of its assertions or arguments.

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Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo
Catherine L. Hobbs
Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
Library of Congress P301.H63 2002 | Dewey Decimal 808.009033

Changes in English studies today, particularly the rise of cultural studies, have forced reexaminations of historical genealogies. Three complex figures whose places are currently being reassessed include the Neapolitan Giambattista Vico (1668 –1744), the Frenchman Etienne de Condillac (1714 –1780), and the Scotsman James Burnet(t), Lord Monboddo (1714 –1799) in our histories of communication, linguistics, English studies, and now rhetoric.

In Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo, Catherine L. Hobbs focuses primarily on these three key figures in whose work rhetoric and linguistics intertwine as they respond to emerging attitudes and values of science and philosophy in the eighteenth century. Through her examination of works of Vico, Condillac, Monboddo and other marginal figures, Hobbs presents a different and more nuanced view of the transformation of rhetoric from classical to modern.

In order to redefine each figure’s position, Hobbs brings together the histories of linguistics, literature, rhetoric, and communication, rather than leaving them isolated in separate disciplines. She examines each figure’s theory of language origin and development as it has motivated their rhetorical theories. The result is Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo, an original and significant account of the formation of modern rhetoric.

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Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance
Cheryl Glenn
Southern Illinois University Press, 1998
Library of Congress PN183.G54 1997 | Dewey Decimal 808.08209

After explaining how and why women have been excluded from the rhetorical tradition from antiquity through the Renaissance, Cheryl Glenn provides the opportunity for Sappho, Aspasia, Diotima, Hortensia, Fulvia, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Margaret More Roper, Anne Askew, and Elizabeth I to speak with equal authority and as eloquently as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine. Her aim is nothing less than regendering and changing forever the history of rhetoric.

To that end, Glenn locates women’s contributions to and participation in the rhetorical tradition and writes them into an expanded, inclusive tradition. She regenders the tradition by designating those terms of identity that have promoted and supported men’s control of public, persuasive discourse—the culturally constructed social relations between, the appropriate roles for, and the subjective identities of women and men.

Glenn is the first scholar to contextualize, analyze, and follow the migration of women’s rhetorical accomplishments systematically. To locate these women, she follows the migration of the Western intellectual tradition from its inception in classical antiquity and its confrontation with and ultimate appropriation by evangelical Christianity to its force in the medieval Church and in Tudor arts and politics.

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Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-century England
Ryan J. Stark
Catholic University of America Press, 2009
Library of Congress PE1083.S73 2009 | Dewey Decimal 820.9

Ryan J. Stark presents a spiritually sensitive, interdisciplinary, and original discussion of early modern English rhetoric. He shows specifically how experimental philosophers attempted to disenchant language

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The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland
Brian James Stone
Amsterdam University Press, 2022

This book represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a series of three case studies, Brian Stone traces the textual transmission of rhetorical theories and practices from the late Roman period to those early Irish monastic communities who would not only preserve and pass on the light of learning, but adapt an ancient tradition to their own cultural needs, contributing to the history of rhetoric in important ways. The manuscript tradition of early Ireland, which gave us the largest body of vernacular literature in the medieval period and is already appreciated for its literary contributions, is also a site of rhetorical innovation and creative practice.

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Rhetorical Bodies
Jack Selzer
University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Library of Congress P301.5.S63R49 1999 | Dewey Decimal 808

What significance does the physical, material body still have in a world of virtual reality and genetic cloning? How do technology and postmodern rhetoric influence our understanding of the body? And how can our discussion of the body affect the way we handle crises in public policy—the politics of race and ethnicity; issues of "family values" that revolve around sexual and gender identities; the choices revolving around reproduction and genome projects, and the spread of disease?

Leading scholars in rhetoric and communication, as well as literary and cultural studies, address some of the most important topics currently being discussed in the human sciences. The essays collected here suggest the wide range of public arenas in which rhetoric is operative—from abortion clinics and the World Wide Web to the media's depiction of illiteracy and the Donner Party. These studies demonstrate how the discourse of AIDS prevention or Demi Moore's "beautiful pregnancy" call to mind the physical nature of being human and the ways in which language and other symbols reflect and create the physical world.

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A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
Weiss-Wendt, Anton
Rutgers University Press, 2018
Library of Congress KZ7180.W45 2018 | Dewey Decimal 345.0251

The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics?

A Rhetorical Crime shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge.

Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.

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Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study
Ben McCorkle
Southern Illinois University Press, 2012
Library of Congress P301.5.D37M33 2011 | Dewey Decimal 808

According to Ben McCorkle, the rhetorical canon of delivery—traditionally seen as the aspect of oratory pertaining to vocal tone, inflection, and physical gesture—has undergone a period of renewal within the last few decades to include the array of typefaces, color palettes, graphics, and other design elements used to convey a message to a chosen audience. McCorkle posits that this redefinition, while a noteworthy moment of modern rhetorical theory, is just the latest instance in a historical pattern of interaction between rhetoric and technology. In Rhetorical

Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study, McCorkle explores the symbiotic relationship between delivery and technologies of writing and communication. Aiming to enhance historical understanding by demonstrating how changes in writing technology have altered our conception of delivery, McCorkle reveals the ways in which oratory and the tools of written expression have directly affected one another throughout the ages.

To make his argument, the author examines case studies from significant historical moments in the Western rhetorical tradition. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, McCorkle illustrates how the increasingly literate Greeks developed rhetorical theories intended for oratory that incorporated “writerly” tendencies, diminishing delivery’s once-prime status in the process. Also explored is the near-eradication of rhetorical delivery in the mid-fifteenth century—the period of transition from late manuscript to early print culture—and the implications of the burgeoning

print culture during the nineteenth century.

McCorkle then investigates the declining interest in delivery as technology designed to replace the human voice and gesture became prominent at the beginning of the 1900s. Situating scholarship on delivery within a broader postmodern structure, he moves on to a discussion of the characteristics of contemporary hypertextual and digital communication and its role in reviving the canon, while also anticipating the future of communication technologies, the likely shifts in attitude toward delivery, and the implications of both on the future of teaching rhetoric.

Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse traces a long-view perspective of rhetorical history to present readers a productive reading of the volatile treatment of delivery alongside the parallel history of writing and communication technologies. This rereading will expand knowledge of the canon by not only offering the most thorough treatment of the history of rhetorical delivery available but also inviting conversation about the reciprocal impacts of rhetorical theory and written communication on each other throughout this history.

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Rhetorical Education in Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Women's Journalism
Grace Wetzel, with a foreword by Shari J. Stenberg
Southern Illinois University Press, 2022
Library of Congress PN4888.W66W488 2023 | Dewey Decimal 071.3082

Examining the rhetorical and pedagogical work of three turn-of-the-century newspaperwomen

At the end of the nineteenth century, newspapers powerfully shaped the U.S. reading public, fostering widespread literacy development and facilitating rhetorical education. With new opportunities to engage audiences, female journalists repurposed the masculine tradition of journalistic writing by bringing together intimate forms of rhetoric and pedagogy to create innovative new dialogues. Rhetorical Education in Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Women’s Journalism illuminates the pedagogical contributions of three newspaperwomen to show how the field became a dynamic site of public participation, relationship building, education, and activism in the 1880s and 1890s.

Grace Wetzel introduces us to the work of Omaha correspondent Susette La Flesche Tibbles (Inshta Theamba), African American newspaper columnist Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and white middle-class reporter Winifred Black (“Annie Laurie”). Journalists by trade, these three writers made the mass-circulating newspaper their site of teaching and social action, inviting their audiences and communities—especially systematically marginalized voices—to speak, write, and teach alongside them.

Situating these journalists within their own specific writing contexts and personas, Wetzel reveals how Mossell promoted literacy learning and community investment among African American women through a reader-centered pedagogy; La Flesche modeled relational news research and reporting as a survivance practice while reporting for the Omaha Morning World-Herald at the time of the Wounded Knee Massacre; and Black inspired public writing and activism among children from different socioeconomic classes through her “Little Jim” story. The teachings of these figures serve as enduring examples of how we can engage in meaningful public literacy and ethical journalism.

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The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Nikephoros Basilakes
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress PA181.N55 2016 | Dewey Decimal 808.0481

Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. Using material from Greek literary, mythological, and historical traditions, students and writers composed examples ranging from simple fables to complex arguments about fictional laws. In the Byzantine period, the spectrum of source material expanded to include the Bible and Christian hagiography and theology.

This collection was written by Nikephoros Basilakes, imperial notary and teacher at the prestigious Patriarchal School in Constantinople during the twelfth century. In his texts, Basilakes made significant use of biblical themes, especially in character studies—known as ethopoeiae—featuring King David, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Peter. The Greek exercises presented here, translated into English for the first time, shed light on education under the Komnenian emperors and illuminate literary culture during one of the most important epochs in the long history of the Byzantine Empire.

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Rhetorical Exposures: Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
Christopher Carter
University of Alabama Press, 2015
Library of Congress TR820.C364 2015 | Dewey Decimal 070.49

Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs—often now called “imagetexts”—both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film.

Carter’s carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis’s heartrending photos of Manhattan’s poor in late nineteenth-century New York, Walker Evans’s iconic images of tenant farmers in west Alabama, Ted Streshinsky’s images of 1960s social movements, Camilo José Vergara’s photographic landscapes of urban dereliction in the 1970s, and Chandra McCormick’s portraits of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward scarred by Hurricane Katrina.

While not ascribing specifically political or Marxist intentions to the photographers discussed, Carter frames his arguments in a class-based dialectic that addresses material want as an ineluctable result of social inequality. Carter argues that social documentary photography has the powerful capacity to disrupt complacent habits of viewing and to prompt viewers to confront injustice. Though photography may induce socially disruptive experiences, it remains vulnerable to the same power dynamics it subverts. Therefore, Carter offers a “rhetoric of exposure” that outlines how such social documentary images can be treated as highly tensioned rhetorical objects. His framework enables the analysis of photographs as heterogeneous records of the interaction of social classes and expressions of specific built environments. Rhetorical Exposures also discusses how photographs interact with oral and print media and relate to creations as diverse as public memorials, murals, and graphic novels.

As the creation and dissemination of new media continues to evolve in an environment of increasing anxiety about growing financial inequality, Rhetorical Exposures offers a very apt and timely discussion of the ways social documentary photography is created, employed, and understood.

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Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials
Marouf A. Hasian Jr.
Michigan State University Press, 2006
Library of Congress KZ1176.5.H37 2006 | Dewey Decimal 341.69

During the past several decades, the twentieth century Holocaust has become a defining event in many histories. This newfound respect for the Judeocide has been cathartic for both individuals and communities, in that it provides evidence that audiences around the world are rethinking the significance of the World War II narratives of bystanders, perpetrators, and victims. Given the complexities of these issues, scholars who are interested in studying Holocaust memory make choices about the questions on which they focus, the artifacts they select for analysis, and the perspectives they want to present.
Hasian reviews how national and international courts have used Holocaust trials as forums for debates about individuated justice, historical record keeping, and pedagogical memory work. He concludes that the trials involving Auschwitz, Demjanjuk, Eichmann, Finta, Nuremberg, Irving, Kastner, Keegstra, Sawoniuk, and Zündel are highly problematic. The author provides a rhetorical analysis of holocaust trials as a way of looking into the question of what role court proceedings play in the creation of Holocaust collective memories.

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The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe: Forms of Biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV
Thomas Mayer and D. R. Woolf, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 1995
Library of Congress CT21.R52 1995 | Dewey Decimal 808.06692

Lives as lived and lives as written are never one and the same. To turn the first into the second one must introduce "fiction" into the "fact" of the actual existence; this is never more true than during the Renaissance, when multiformity was the rule. The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe explores the ways in which authors and their subjects constructed images for themselves, and some of the ways in which those images worked.
The volume is especially timely in light of the growing interest in "microhistory," and in the histories that are emerging from nonliterary documents. Chapters consider numerous genres, including hagiography, epistolary and verse biography, and less familiar forms such as parodic prosopography, life-writing in funeral sermons, and comic martyrology.
Contributors to the volume come from history, art history, and literature, and they include F.W. Conrad, Sheila ffolliott, Robert Kolb, James Mehl, Diana Robin, T.C. Price Zimmerman, and Elizabeth Goldsmith and Abby Zanger, among others.
Thomas F. Mayer is Associate Professor of History, Augustana College. D. R. Woolf is Professor of History, Dalhousie University.

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Rhetorics of Motherhood
Lindal Buchanan
Southern Illinois University Press, 2013
Library of Congress P120.W66B83 2013 | Dewey Decimal 306.44082

Becoming a mother profoundly alters one’s perception of the world, as Lindal Buchanan learned firsthand when she gave birth. Suddenly attentive to representations of mothers and mothering in advertisements, fiction, film, art, education, and politics, she became intrigued by the persuasive force of the concept of motherhood, an interest that unleashed a host of questions: How is the construct defined? How are maternal appeals crafted, presented, and performed? What do they communicate about gender and power? How do they affect women? Her quest for answers has produced Rhetorics of Motherhood, the first book-length consideration of the topic through a feminist rhetorical lens.

Although both male and female rhetors employ motherhood to promote themselves and their agendas, Buchanan argues it is particularly slippery terrain for women—on the one hand, affording them authority and credibility but, on the other, positioning them disadvantageously within the gendered status quo. Rhetorics of Motherhood investigates that paradox by detailing the cultural construction and performance of the Mother in American public discourse, tracing its use and impact in three case studies, and by theorizing how, when, and why maternal discourses work to women’s benefit or detriment. In the process, the reader encounters a fascinating array of issues—including birth control, civil rights, and abortion—and rhetors, ranging from Diane Nash and Margaret Sanger to Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama.

As Buchanan makes clear, motherhood is a rich site for investigating the interrelationships among gender, power, and public discourse. Her latest book contributes to the discipline of rhetoric by attending to and making a convincing case for the significance of this understudied subject. With its examination of timely controversies, contemporary and historical figures, and powerful women, Rhetorics of Motherhood will appeal to a wide array of readers in rhetoric, communications, American studies, women’s studies, and beyond.

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Rhetorics of Resistance: Opposition Journalism in Apartheid South Africa
Bryan Trabold
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
Library of Congress PN5477.P6T73 2019 | Dewey Decimal 079.68

The period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa’s history. This book examines the tactics of resistance developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South Africa in the mid- and late 1980s. The government, in an attempt to crack down on the massive political resistance sweeping the country, had imposed martial law and imposed even greater restrictions on the press. Bryan Trabold examines the writing, legal, and political strategies developed by those working for these newspapers to challenge the censorship restrictions as much as possible—without getting banned. Despite the many steps taken by the government to silence them, including detaining the editor of New Nation for two years and temporarily closing both newspapers, the Weekly Mail and New Nation not only continued to publish but actually increased their circulations and obtained strong domestic and international support. New Nation ceased publication in 1994 after South Africa made the transition to democracy, but the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, continues to publish and remains one of South Africa’s most respected newspapers.

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Rheumatic Fever and Streptococcal Infection: Unraveling the Mysteries of a Dread Disease
Benedict F. Massell
Harvard University Press, 1997
Library of Congress RC182.R4M37 1997 | Dewey Decimal 616.991

This is a historical review of the development of our knowledge of the clinical picture, etiology, pathogenesis, and prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease over the past four centuries. Benedict Massell examines the major contributions of both clinicians and investigators to our current understanding of rheumatic fever as a separate disease form.

Elucidating many facts about this dread disease, Massell examines the frequent epidemics in training camps during World War II, discusses our growing understanding of the pathogenesis and mechanisms by which streptococcal infections cause the disease, and shows the important progress made in prevention through the use of penicillin and other antibiotics. He includes a discussion of the many problems which can hinder our understanding and control of this disease, as well as recent promising developments in the clarification of the molecular structure of the streptococcal protein and the possible application of this information to the development of a safe and effective vaccine for the prevention of streptococcal infection.

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Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History
English, Peter C.
Rutgers University Press, 1999
Library of Congress RC182.R4E54 1999 | Dewey Decimal 616.99100941

Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain is the first book to examine comprehensively a disease that has been a moving target for physicians and health care workers. A disease of skin, brain, heart, connective tissue, blood, tonsils, and joints bound to a member of the streptococcus family of bacteria, this illness has practically disappeared from the present-day scene. Yet in 1940 more than one million Americans suffered from the heart disease that followed the ravages of rheumatic fever. It struck nearly 2 percent of all school-aged children, filling hospitals, convalescent homes, and special schools.

Rheumatic fever rose in prevalence throughout the nineteenth century, reaching its peak in that century's last decades, and then steadily declined-both in occurrence and severity-throughout the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, acute rheumatic fever was largely a disease of children and young adults. Another remarkable epidemiological change occurred during the twentieth century; rheumatic fever shifted its character, became milder, and in doing so allowed its victims to live longer, if disabled lives. As this disease so altered, adults increasingly became its victims.

Dr. Peter C. English explores both the shifting biological nature of this disease and the experiences of physicians and patients who fought its ravages. Using insights from biology, epidemiology, and social history, Dr. English-both a physician and medical historian-is uniquely suited to unravel this disease's epidemiological and cultural complexities.

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The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History
Juan Pimentel
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress QL737.U63P5313 2017 | Dewey Decimal 599.668

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to these two mysterious beasts—a rhinoceros, known only from ancient texts, and a nameless monster? As Juan Pimentel explains, the reactions reflect deep intellectual changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world.

We know the rhinoceros today as “Dürer’s Rhinoceros,” after the German artist’s iconic woodcut. His portrait was inaccurate—Dürer never saw the beast and relied on conjecture, aided by a sketch from Lisbon. But the influence of his extraordinary work reflected a steady move away from ancient authority to the dissemination in print of new ideas and images. By the time the megatherium arrived in Spain, that movement had transformed science. When published drawings found their way to Paris, the great zoologist Georges Cuvier correctly deduced that the massive bones must have belonged to an extinct giant sloth. It was a pivotal moment in the discovery of the prehistoric world.

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium offers a penetrating account of two remarkable episodes in the cultural history of science and is itself a vivid example of the scientific imagination at work.

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The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the Revolutionary War
Christian M. McBurney
Westholme Publishing, 2011
Library of Congress E241.R4M33 2011 | Dewey Decimal 973.334

The Marquis de Lafayette and the French Navy join Nathanael Green, John Sullivan, and a Continental Army to Attach a British Stronghold in New England
On July 29, 1778, a powerful French naval squadron sailed confidently to the entrance of Narragansett Bay. Its appearance commenced the first joint French and American campaign of the Revolutionary War. The new allies’ goal was to capture the British garrison at Newport, Rhode Island. With British resolve reeling from the striking patriot victory at Saratoga the previous autumn, this French and American effort might just end the war.

As the French moved into the bay, surprised British captains scuttled or burned many of their vessels rather than risk capture, resulting in the most significant loss of warships suffered by the British navy during the war. French Admiral Comte d’Estaing then turned to sea to engage the main British fleet but his ships were scattered and damaged by a huge storm. After his flagship and two other ships were attacked, d’Estaing’s squadron was taken out of the campaign. The American army under General John Sullivan, meanwhile, was stranded on a small island near Newport without the expected French naval support. When they tried to retreat off the island, British and Hessian regulars were sent to destroy Sullivan’s army; instead of a rout, a running battle ensued that lasted for more than six hours. Continentals, brimming with confidence after their training during the winter of Valley Forge, once more proved that they were an effective fighting force. While the Rhode Island Campaign ended in failure for the Americans and French, there were positive signs for the future of the alliance and the Revolution.

The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation of the Revolutionary War unravels one of the most complex and multi-faceted events of the war, one which combined land and sea strategies and featured controversial decisions on both sides. Many prominent patriots participated, including Nathanael Greene, Marquis de Lafayette, John Hancock, and Paul Revere. Most important, while the campaign’s failure led to harsh criticism of the French in some quarters, leaders such as Greene, Lafayette, and George Washington steadfastly worked to ensure that the alliance would remain intact, knowing that the next joint operation could well succeed. Relying on in-depth research from American, French, British, and German original sources, author Christian McBurney has written the most authoritative book on this fascinating episode in American history.

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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection
Mark Monmonier
University of Chicago Press, 2004
Library of Congress GA115.M66 2004 | Dewey Decimal 526.82

In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda.

Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success.

Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.

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Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship
David Croteau
University of Minnesota Press, 2005
Library of Congress HM881.R59 2005 | Dewey Decimal 303.484

Rhyming Hope and History exposes the frayed relations between activism and social movement scholarship and examines the causes and consequences of this disconnect between theory and practice. Both scholars and activists explore solutions, weighing the promise and perils of engaged theory and the barriers to meaningful collaboration. This volume asserts that partnerships among scholars and activists benefit both academic inquiry and social change efforts.

Contributors: Kevin M. Carragee, Suffolk U; Catherine Corrigall-Brown, U of California, Irvine; Myra Marx Ferree, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Richard Flacks, U of California, Santa Barbara; Adria D. Goodson; Richard Healy and Sandra Hinson, Grassroots Policy Project; David Meyer, U of California, Irvine; Cynthia Peters, Worker Education Program of the Service Employees International Union, Local 2020; Barbara Risman, North Carolina State U; Robert J. S. Ross, Clark U; Leila J. Rupp, U of California, Santa Barbara; Cassie Schwerner, Schott Foundation; Valerie Sperling, Clark U; David A. Snow, U of California, Irvine; Verta Taylor, U of California, Santa Barbara.

David Croteau is formerly associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. William Hoynes is professor of sociology and director of media studies at Vassar College. Charlotte Ryan is codirector of the Media Research and Action Project at Boston College. William A. Gamson is professor of sociology at Boston College.

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Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni
Wye Jamison Allanbrook
University of Chicago Press, 1984
Library of Congress ML410.M9A73 1983 | Dewey Decimal 782.10924

Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.

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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances
Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
University of Michigan Press, 2010
Library of Congress ML3486.A1R49 2010 | Dewey Decimal 780.8996

"Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering. With a mix of Nuyorican, Cuban, Haitian, Kenyan, Senegalese, Trinidagonian, and Brazilian beats, Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World proves that the pleasures of poly-rhythm belong to the realm of the discursive as well as the sonic and the kinesthetic."
---Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater, Yale University

"As necessary as it is brilliant, Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World dances across, beyond, and within the Black Atlantic Diaspora with the aplomb and skill befitting its editors and contributors."
---Mark Anthony Neal, author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

Along with linked modes of religiosity, music and dance have long occupied a central position in the ways in which Atlantic peoples have enacted, made sense of, and responded to their encounters with each other. This unique collection of essays connects nations from across the Atlantic---Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, among others---highlighting contemporary popular, folkloric, and religious music and dance. By tracking the continuous reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal traces, the contributors to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World collectively argue that music and dance are the living evidence of a constant (re)composition and (re)mixing of local sounds and gestures.

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World distinguishes itself as a collection focusing on the circulation of cultural forms across the Atlantic world, tracing the paths trod by a range of music and dance forms within, across, or beyond the variety of locales that constitute the Atlantic world. The editors and contributors do so, however, without assuming that these paths have been either always in line with national, regional, or continental boundaries or always transnational, transgressive, and perfectly hybrid/syncretic. This collection seeks to reorient the discourse on cultural forms moving in the Atlantic world by being attentive to the specifics of the forms---their specific geneses, the specific uses to which they are put by their creators and consumers, and the specific ways in which they travel or churn in place.

Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Director of the Institute of African Studies, and Professor of History at Columbia University.

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Jacket photograph by Elias Irizarry

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Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar
Duke University Press, 2014
Library of Congress F3320.1.G6G8813 2014

In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents these mass collective actions, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change.

"In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar's political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican nationality, [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense, brilliant activist and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document. . . . Rhythms of the Pachakuti deserves to stand as a key text in the international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new century."—Sinclair Thomson, from the foreword

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Rice: A Global History
Renee Marton
Reaktion Books, 2014

From jambalaya to risotto, curry to nasi kandar, few foods are as ubiquitous in our meals as rice. A dietary staple and indispensable agricultural product from Asia to the Americas, the grain can be found in Michelin restaurants and family kitchens alike. In this engaging culinary history, Renee Marton explores the role rice has played in society and the food economy as it journeyed from its beginnings in Asia and West Africa to global prominence.

Examining the early years of rice’s burgeoning popularity, Marton shows that trade of the grain was driven by profit from both high status export rice and the lower-quality versions that fed countless laborers. In addition to urbanization and the increase in marketing and advertising, she reveals that rice’s rise to supremacy also came through its consumption by slave, indentured servant, and immigrant communities. She also considers the significance rice has in cultural rituals, literature, music, painting, and poetry. She even shows how the specific rice one consumes can have great importance in distinguishing one’s identity within an ethnic group. Chock full of delicious recipes from across the globe, Rice is a fascinating look at how this culinary staple has defined us.

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Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam
Vu Hong Lien
Reaktion Books, 2016

The once-obscure cuisine of Vietnam is, today, a favorite for many people from East to West. Adapted and modified over thousands of years, it is probably best known as a particularly delicious result of combining traditional southeast Asian cookery with visible outside influences—notably, the crunchy baguette—from its French-occupied past. Drawing on archeological evidence, oral and written histories, and wide-ranging research, Vu Hong Lien tells the complex and surprising history of food in Vietnam.
Rice and Baguette traces the prehistoric Việt’s progress from hunter-gathers of mollusks and small animals to sophisticated agriculturalists. The book follows them as they developed new tools and practices to perfect the growing of their crops until rice became a crucial commodity,which then irrevocably changed their diet, lifestyle, and social structure. Along the way, the author shows how Việt cuisine was dramatically influenced by French colonial cookery and products, which introduced a whole new set of ingredients and techniques into Vietnam. Beautifully illustrated throughout and peppered with fascinating historical tales, Rice and Baguette reveals the long journey that Vietnamese food has traveled to become the much-loved cuisine that it is today.

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Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina
Daniel C. Littlefield
University of Illinois Press, 1991
Library of Congress E445.S7L57 1991 | Dewey Decimal 975.700496

Daniel Littlefield's investigation of colonial South Carolinianss preference for some African ethnic groups over others as slaves reveals how the Africans' diversity and capabilities inhibited the development of racial stereotypes and influenced their masters' perceptions of slaves. It also highlights how South Carolina, perhaps more than anywhere else in North America, exemplifies the common effort of Africans and Europeans in molding American civilization.

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A Rich and Fertile Land: A History of Food in America
Bruce Kraig
Reaktion Books, 2017
Library of Congress TX360.U6K73 2017 | Dewey Decimal 363.80973

The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and why? In A Rich and Fertile Land, Bruce Kraig investigates the history of food in America, uncovering where it comes from and how it has changed over time.

From the first Native Americans to modern industrial farmers, Kraig takes us on a journey to reveal how people have shaped the North American continent and its climate based on the foods they craved and the crops and animals that they raised. He analyzes the ideas that Americans have about themselves and the world around them, and how these ideas have been shaped by interactions with their environments. He details the impact of technical innovation and industrialization, which have in turn created modern American food systems.

Drawing upon recent evidence from the fields of science, archaeology, and technology, A Rich and Fertile Land is a unique and valuable history of the geography, climate, and food of the United States.

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A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World
Jeanette M. Fregulia
University of Arkansas Press, 2019
Library of Congress GT2918.F74 2019 | Dewey Decimal 394.12

The history of coffee is much more than the tale of one luxury good—it is a lens through which to consider various strands of world history, from food and foodways to religion and economics and sociocultural dynamics.

A Rich and Tantalizing Brew traces the history of coffee from its cultivation and brewing first as a private pleasure in the highlands of Ethiopia and Yemen through its emergence as a sought-after public commodity served in coffeehouses first in the Muslim world, and then traveling across the Mediterranean to Italy, to other parts of Europe, and finally to India and the Americas. At each of these stops the brew gathered ardent aficionados and vocal critics, all the while reshaping patterns of socialization.

Taking its conversational tone from the chats often held over a steaming cup, A Rich and Tantalizing Brew offers a critical and entertaining look at how this bitter beverage, with a little help from the tastes that traveled with it—chocolate, tea, and sugar—has connected people to each other both within and outside of their typical circles, inspiring a new context for sharing news, conducting business affairs, and even plotting revolution.

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Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
Kristine Louise Haugen
Harvard University Press, 2011
Library of Congress PA85.B4H38 2011 | Dewey Decimal 880.9

What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day—Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen’s highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue” affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.

Aiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and—in the case of his interventionist edition of Paradise Lost—sometimes lamentable results.

If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment.

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Richard Bong: World War II Flying Ace
Pete Barnes
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009
Library of Congress UG626.2.B66B376 2009 | Dewey Decimal 940.544973092

Who would have imagined a farm boy from Wisconsin would be the greatest air hero of World War II? Richard Bong was an athletic and hard-working boy from northern Wisconsin who dreamed of flying from the first time a plane buzzed low over his family farm. When war broke out, he left behind a life of sports, deer hunting, and farm chores to fly the new P-38 Lightning for the Army Air Force. Stationed in New Guinea, Bong shot down a total of 40 Japanese flyers in under three years - beating the record of 26 set by Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. His accomplishments won this modest pilot the title "Ace of Aces" and a Congressional Medal of Honor awarded by General MacArthur himself.

Follow Bong as he navigates his way through basic training, flight school, and life on an overseas army base. Watch as he takes to the skies in his P-38 fighter jet, outflying Japanese aircraft with barrel rolls, dives, and turns. Celebrate as he meets and marries the love of his life back home in Wisconsin, and mourn as his life comes to a swift and unexpected end during an ill-fated training flight in California.

Richard Bong: World War II Flying Ace is part of the Badger Biographies series for young readers. The engaging narrative is complemented by an accessible format that includes historic photographs, a glossary of terms, sidebars on life in the military, and suggestions for activities and discussion.

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Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
David S. Brown
University of Chicago Press, 2006
Library of Congress E175.5.H55B76 2006 | Dewey Decimal 973.07202

Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America’s most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter fought public campaigns against liberalism’s most dynamic opponents, from McCarthy in the 1950s to Barry Goldwater and the Sun Belt conservatives in the 1960s. His opposition to the extreme politics of postwar America—articulated in his books, essays, and public lectures—marked him as one of the nation’s most important and prolific public intellectuals.

In this masterful biography, David Brown explores Hofstadter’s life within the context of the rise and fall of American liberalism. A fierce advocate of academic freedom, racial justice, and political pluralism, Hofstadter charted in his works the changing nature of American society from a provincial Protestant foundation to one based on the values of an urban and multiethnic nation. According to Brown, Hofstadter presciently saw in rural America’s hostility to this cosmopolitanism signs of an anti-intellectualism that he believed was dangerously endemic in a mass democracy.

By the end of a life cut short by leukemia, Hofstadter had won two Pulitzer Prizes, and his books had attracted international attention. Yet the Vietnam years, as Brown shows, culminated in a conservative reaction to his work that is still with us. Whether one agrees with Hofstadter’s critics or with the noted historian John Higham, who insisted that Hofstadter was “the finest and also the most humane intelligence of our generation,” the importance of this seminal thinker cannot be denied. As this fascinating biography ultimately shows, Hofstadter’s observations on the struggle between conservative and liberal America are relevant to our own times, and his legacy challenges us to this day.

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Richard II
William Shakespeare
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021
Library of Congress PS3559.I39 | Dewey Decimal 812.54

Shakespeare’s history play reimagined by Naomi Iizuka.

Following the events of the final two years of his life, Richard II interrogates royal power and the forces that threaten it. After banishing his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Richard begins to lose grip of his throne and strives to find meaning in the churn and chaos of the events unfolding around him. In her new translation, Naomi Iizuka ventures into the mystery of the work, scraping away the layers of received wisdom and cracking the play open for contemporary audiences.

This translation of Richard II was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from “The Bard” in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.

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Richard III
William Shakespeare
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021
Library of Congress PR2878.K9C78 2021 | Dewey Decimal 812.54

Playwright Migdalia Cruz breathes new life into Richard III.

Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz unpacks and repositions Shakespeare’s Richard III for a twenty-first-century audience. She presents a contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play intact, with a rigorous and in-depth examination of Richard III—the man, the king, the outsider—who is still the only English king to have died in battle. In the Wars of the Roses, his Catholic belief in his country led to his slaughter at Bosworth’s Field by his Protestant rivals. In reimagining this text, Cruz emphasizes Richard III’s outsider status—exacerbated by his severe scoliosis, which twisted his spine—by punctuating the text with punk music from 1970s London. Cruz’s Richard is no one’s fool or lackey. He is a new kind of monarch, whose dark sense of humor and deep sense of purpose leads his charge against the society which never fully accepted him because he looked different.

This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.

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Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History
Jeffrey R. Wilson
Temple University Press, 2022
Library of Congress PR2821 | Dewey Decimal 822.33

Richard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth—a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nation’s most important artist.

In Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity, Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years, from Richard’s own manuscripts, early Tudor propaganda, and x-rays of sixteenth-century paintings through Shakespeare’s soliloquies, into Samuel Johnson’s editorial notes, the first play produced by an African American Theater company, Freudian psychoanalysis, and the rise of disability theater. For Wilson, the changing meanings of disability created through shifting perspectives in Shakespeare’s plays prefigure a series of modern attempts to understand Richard’s body in different disciplinary contexts—from history and philosophy to sociology and medicine.

While theorizing a role for Shakespeare in the field of disability history, Wilson reveals how Richard III has become an index for some of modernity’s central concerns—the tension between appearance and reality, the conflict between individual will and external forces of nature and culture, the possibility of upward social mobility, and social interaction between self and other, including questions of discrimination, prejudice, hatred, oppression, power, and justice.

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Richard Kern's Far West Sketches: A Visual History of the 1853 Gunnison Expedition
Robert Shlaer
University of Utah Press, 2020
Library of Congress NC139.K47 | Dewey Decimal 741.09792

In 1853 Richard Hovendon Kern was hired as topographer and artist for a government-sponsored reconnaissance led by Captain John Williams Gunnison. Kern sketched landscape panoramas as the group made its way from the eastern border of Kansas Territory toward the Pacific Ocean. When the expedition reached Sevier Lake, Utah, however, it was attacked by a band of Indians. Seven men, including Kern and Gunnison, were killed and Kern’s drawings were stolen. The sketches were soon recovered and eventually carried to Washington, D.C.

Robert Shlaer came across them many years later at the Newberry Library in Chicago and was inspired to locate the views depicted in the drawings and to photograph them, as nearly as was possible, from the same spot where Kern stood when he sketched them.

Richard Kern’s Far West Sketches juxtaposes Kern’s drawings with Shlaer's photographs, presenting 389 illustrations in geographic sequence from east to west, as well as a detailed narrative of the expedition. An associated website will include maps, drawings, and photographs so that they can be enlarged, compared, and studied in detail, providing an immersive experience of this important and ill-fated expedition.

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Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin
Nicolaas A. Rupke
University of Chicago Press, 2009
Library of Congress QH31.O94R86 2009 | Dewey Decimal 508.092

In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history.

With this innovative biography, Nicolaas A. Rupke resuscitates Owen’s reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin

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Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution
William Bernard Peach, ed.
Duke University Press, 1979
Library of Congress E211.P96918 1979 | Dewey Decimal 973.31

Richard Price was a loyal, although dissenting, subject of Great Britain who thought the British treatment of their colonies as wrong, not only prudentially, financially, economically, militarily, and politically, but, above all, morally wrong. He expressed these views in his first pamphlet early in 1776. It concluded with a plea for the cessation of hostilities by Great Britain and reconciliation. Its analyses, arguments, and conclusions, however, along with its admiration for the colonists, their moral position and qualities, could hardly fail to contribute to their reluctant recognition that there was no real alternative to independence. Price found some of his views not only misunderstood but vilified by negative critics in the ensuing controversy. So he wrote a second pamphlet which was published in early 1777. He expanded his analysis of liberty, extended its application to the war with America, and greatly expanded his discussion of the economic impact upon Great Britain. After the war, in 1784, he published a third pamphlet on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world, appending an extensive letter from the Frenchman, Turgot. Implicitly the letter regards Price as a perceptive theorist of the revolution; explicitly it identifies the problems facing the prospective new nation and expresses a wish that it will fulfill its role s the hope of the world. Selections in the appendices present a part of the pamphlet controversy and the selection of correspondence shows how seriously Price was regarded by Revolutionary leaders.

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Richer of Saint-Remi
Justin Lake
Catholic University of America Press, 2013
Library of Congress DC36.98.R53L35 2013 | Dewey Decimal 944.02107202

Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study by Justin Lake provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write.

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Richmond's Priests and Prophets: Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
Douglas E. Thompson
University of Alabama Press, 2017
Library of Congress BR560.R5T46 2017 | Dewey Decimal 277.554510825

Explores the ways in which white Christian leaders in Richmond, Virginia navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a segregated society

Douglas E. Thompson’s Richmond’s Priests and Prophets: Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era presents a compelling study of religious leaders’ impact on the political progression of Richmond, Virginia, during the time of desegregation. Scrutinizing this city as an entry point into white Christians’ struggles with segregation during the 1950s, Thompson analyzes the internal tensions between ministers, the members of their churches, and an evolving world.

In the mid-twentieth-century American South, white Christians were challenged repeatedly by new ideas and social criteria. Neighborhood demographics were shifting, public schools were beginning to integrate, and ministers’ influence was expanding. Although many pastors supported the transition into desegregated society, the social pressure to keep life divided along racial lines placed Richmond’s ministers on a collision course with forces inside their own congregations. Thompson reveals that, to navigate the ideals of Christianity within a complex historical setting, white religious leaders adopted priestly and prophetic roles.

Moreover, the author argues that, until now, the historiography has not viewed white Christian churches with the nuance necessary to understand their diverse reactions to desegregation. His approach reveals the ways in which desegregationists attempted to change their communities’ minds, while also demonstrating why change came so slowly—highlighting the deeply emotional and intellectual dilemma of many southerners whose worldview was fundamentally structured by race and class hierarchies.

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Rida Said: A Man for All Seasons
Sabah Kabbani
Haus Publishing, 2018

Like many founding fathers, Rida Saïd (1876-1946) lived a cosmopolitan life before taking on his monumental contribution to building the modern nation of Syria. Born in Damascus in 1876, Said trained as a medical doctor in Istanbul and Paris. As a young man, he served as a field doctor with the Ottoman Empire’s army in the Balkan Wars, but he soon became disillusioned about his homeland’s foreign rulers. Like other Syrians, he was opposed to the aggressive Turkish nationalism that alienated Arabs and dreamed of a more inclusive system for his people. After his medical work in Damascus during World War I, and following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Said took on a critical role in establishing an independent Syria: he became a pioneering educator, advocating for the importance of providing institutions to educate the Arab people. He went on to become the first head of Damascus University, and then Minister of Education. He died in 1945, a few months before Syria finally achieved independence in 1946.

Now available for the first time in English, Rida Saïd: A Man for All Seasons tells the story of this remarkable life at the heart of a nation in deep conflict. Indeed, Saïd’s story resonates profoundly today as the Syrian people struggle for a future of opportunity and respect.

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Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations
David Owen
Haus Publishing, 2022

A history of relations between Britain and Russia from the nineteenth century to the present.

With Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma, statesman and author David Owen tells the story of Britain’s relationship with Russia, which has been surprisingly underexplored. Through his characteristic insight and expertise, he depicts a relationship governed by principle as often as by suspicion, expediency, and necessity.

When the two nations formed a pragmatic alliance and fought together at the Battle of Navarino in Greece in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the British prime minister, George Canning. His death brought about a drastic shift that would see the countries fighting on opposite sides in the Crimean War and jostling for power during the Great Game. It was not until the Russian Revolution of 1917 that another statesman had a defining impact on relations between Britain and Russia: Winston Churchill, who opposed Bolshevism yet never stopped advocating for diplomatic and military engagement with Russia. In the Second World War, he recognized early on the necessity of allying with the Soviets against the menace of Nazi Germany. Bringing us into the twenty-first century, Owen chronicles how both countries have responded to their geopolitical decline. Drawing on both imperial and Soviet history, he explains the unique nature of Putin’s autocracy and addresses Britain’s return to “blue water” diplomacy. Newly revised, this paperback edition features extended chapters on Putin’s Russia and the future of British–Russian relations after the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda
Jennifer Tappan
Ohio University Press, 2017
Library of Congress RA645.N87 | Dewey Decimal 362.196390096761

More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care. Medicalization meant malnutrition came to be seen as a disease—as a medical emergency—not a preventable condition, further compromising nutritional health in Uganda.

Rather than rely on a foreign-led model, physicians in Uganda responded to this failure by developing a novel public health program known as Mwanamugimu. The new approach prioritized local expertise and empowering Ugandan women, blending biomedical knowledge with African sensibilities and cultural competencies.

In The Riddle of Malnutrition, Jennifer Tappan examines how over the course of half a century Mwanamugimu tackled the most fatal form of childhood malnutrition—kwashiorkor—and promoted nutritional health in the midst of postcolonial violence, political upheaval, and neoliberal resource constraints. She draws on a diverse array of sources to illuminate the interplay between colonialism, the production of scientific knowledge, and the delivery of health services in contemporary Africa.

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The Riddle of the Image: The Secret Science of Medieval Art
Spike Bucklow
Reaktion Books, 2014

From monumental church mosaics to fresco wall-paintings, the medieval period produced some of the most impressive art in history. But how, in a world without the array of technology and access to materials that we now have, did artists produce such incredible works, often on an unbelievably large scale? In The Riddle of the Image, research scientist and art restorer Spike Bucklow discovers the actual materials and methods that lie behind the production of historical paintings.

Examining the science of the tools and resources, as well as the techniques of medieval artists, Bucklow adds new layers to our understanding and appreciation of paintings in particular and medieval art more generally. He uses case studies—including The Wilton Diptych, one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery in London and the altarpiece in front of which English monarchs were crowned for centuries—and analyses of these works, presenting previously unpublished technical details that shed new light on the mysteries of medieval artists. The first account to examine this subject in depth for a general audience, The Riddle of the Image is a beautifully illustrated look at the production of medieval paintings.

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Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless
Gary Jones
Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019
Library of Congress F587.R4J66 2019 | Dewey Decimal 977.575

Straight talk from up on the farm

Raised on a small dairy farm in the Driftless Area in the mid-twentieth century, Gary Jones gets real about his rural roots. In this collection of interrelated stories, Jones writes with plainspoken warmth and irreverence about farm, family, and folks on the ridge. Readers will meet Gramp Jones, whose oversized overalls saved him from losing a chunk of flesh to an irate sow; the young one-room-school teacher who helped the kids make sled jumps at recess; Charlotte, the lawn-mowing sheep who once ended up in the living room; Victor the pig-cutter, who learned his trade from folk tradition rather than vet school; and other colorful characters of the ridge. Often humorous and occasionally touching, Jones’s essays paint a vivid picture that will entertain city and country folk alike.

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Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors’ Horse Guard
Michael P. Speidel
Harvard University Press

Caesar praised them in his Commentaries. Trajan had them carved on his Column. Hadrian wrote poems about them. Well might these rulers have immortalized the horse guard, whose fortunes so closely kept pace with their own. Riding for Caesar follows these horsemen from their rally to rescue Caesar at Noviodunum in 52 B.C. to their last stand alongside Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. It offers a colorful picture of these horsemen in all their changing guises and duties--as the emperor's bodyguard or his parade troops, as a training school and officer's academy for the Roman army, or as a shock force in the endless wars of the second and third centuries. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the Roman army, this history reveals the remarkable part the horse guard played in the fate of the Roman empire.

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Riding for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865
Nathan A. Jennings
University of North Texas Press, 2016
Library of Congress F391.J55 2016 | Dewey Decimal 355.00976409034

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad
Miriam Thaggert
University of Illinois Press, 2022
Library of Congress E185.86 | Dewey Decimal 305.896073

Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class "ladies’ cars"; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or "progress," through her travel experiences.

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Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border
Bob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2013
Library of Congress F391.A29 2013 | Dewey Decimal 976.405

Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West
Robert A. Trennert
University Press of Colorado, 2001
Library of Congress TN332.T74 2001 | Dewey Decimal 622.66

Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S. Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. Their inventions were followed by the more substantial double-rope systems imported from Europe. By the turn of the century, aerial tramways were common throughout western mining regions, hauling everything from gold and silver ore to coal and salt and changing the face of the industry.

Aerial mine tramways proved to have a special fascination; people often rode them for a thrill, sometimes with disastrous results. They were also very temperamental, needed constant attention, and were prone to accidents. The years between 1900 and 1920 saw the operation of some of the west's most spectacular tramways, but the decline in high-country mining beginning in the 1920s--coupled with the development of more efficient means of transportation--made this technology all but obsolete by the end of the Second World War.

Historians and the general reader will be equally enthralled by Trennert's fascinating story of the rise and fall of aerial mine tramways.

"Professor Trennert has explored a new area of mining history, and is to be commended for his pioneering work." --Liston Leyendecker, author of The Griffith Family and the Founding of Georgetown.

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A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
Brent J. Aucoin
University of Arkansas Press, 2007
Library of Congress KF4757.A953 2007 | Dewey Decimal 342.730873

A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement.

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Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response
John Feffer
Pluto Press, 2021

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' - Mike Davis

In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than half the world’s population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. Today’s autocrats are, at first glance, a diverse band of brothers. But religious, economic, social and environmental differences aside, there is one thing that unites them - their hatred of the liberal, globalized world. This unity is their strength, and through control of government, civil society and the digital world they are working together across borders to stamp out the left.

In comparison, the liberal left commands only a few disconnected islands - Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and Uruguay. So far they have been on the defensive, campaigning on local issues in their own countries. This narrow focus underestimates the resilience and global connectivity of the right. In this book, John Feffer speaks to the world’s leading activists to show how international leftist campaigns must come together if they are to combat the rising tide of the right.

A global Green New Deal, progressive trans-European movements, grassroots campaigning on international issues with new and improved language and storytelling are all needed if we are to pull the planet back from the edge of catastrophe. This book is both a warning and an inspiration to activists terrified by the strengthening wall of far-right power.

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Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
Sarah Wadsworth
University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
Library of Congress Z732.I2W33 2012 | Dewey Decimal 027.077311

On May 1, 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened its gates to an expectant public eager to experience firsthand its architectural beauty, technological marvels, and vast array of cultural treasures gathered from all over the world. Among the most popular of the fair's attractions was the Woman's Building, a monumental exhibit hall filled with the products of women's labor—including more than 8,000 volumes of writing by women. Right Here I See My Own Books examines the progress, content, and significance of this historic first effort to assemble a comprehensive library of women's texts.

By weaving together the behind-the-scenes story of the library's formation and the stories between the covers of books on display, Wadsworth and Wiegand firmly situate the Woman's Building Library within the historical context of the 1890s. Interdisciplinary in approach, their book demonstrates how this landmark collection helped consolidate and institutionalize women's writing in conjunction with the burgeoning women's movement and the professionalization of librarianship in late nineteenth-century America.

Americans in this period debated a wide range of topics, including women's rights, gender identity, racial politics, nationalism, regionalism, imperialism, and modernity. These debates permeated the cultural climate of the Columbian Exposition. Wadsworth and Wiegand's book illuminates the range and complexity of American women's responses to these issues within a public sphere to which the Woman's Building provided unprecedented access.

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Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia
JoEllen McNergney Vinyard
University of Michigan Press, 2011
Library of Congress JK5835.V56 2011 | Dewey Decimal 322.4209774

"A real contribution to Michigan history that gets to the root of the movements in twentieth-century American history that upon reflection can bring a certain discomfort and unease."
---Francis X. Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Throughout the twentieth century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns on the "left," on the "right," and in the "middle of the road." Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia is about the people who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful---members of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the post– World War II era, and the members of the Michigan Militia who first appeared in the 1990s.

The book explores the complex historical circumstances in Michigan that prompted the emergence of these organizations and led everyday men and women to head off, despite ridicule or condemnation, with plans unsanctioned and tactics unorthodox, variously brandishing weapons of intimidation, discrimination, fearmongering, and terror. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including the organizations' files and interviews with some of their leaders and surviving members, JoEllen Vinyard provides a far more complete portrait of these well-known extremist groups than has ever been available.

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The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900
Peverill Squire
University of Michigan Press, 2021
Library of Congress JK1021.S696 2021 | Dewey Decimal 328.73073409034

The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.

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Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: THE WRITINGS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
John W. Booth
University of Illinois Press, 1997
Library of Congress E457.5.B667 1997 | Dewey Decimal 973.7092

Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination.

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A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46
Kriste Lindenmeyer
University of Illinois Press, 1997
Library of Congress HV741.L525 1997 | Dewey Decimal 362.710973

      Warring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons
        for their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role--if
        any--of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the
        history of child welfare policy in the United States? What can we learn
        from the efforts to found the U.S. Children's bureau in 1903 and its eventual
        dismemberment in 1946?
      This is the first history of the Children's Bureau and the first in-depth
        examination of federal child welfare policy from the perspective of that
        agency. Its goal was to promote "a right to childhood," and
        Kriste Lindenmeyer unflinchingly examines the successes--and the failures--of
        the Bureau. She analyzes infant and maternal mortality, the promotion
        of child health care, child labor reform, and the protection of children
        with "special needs" from the Bureau's inception through the
        Depression, and through all the legislation that impacted on its work
        for children. The meaningful accomplishments and the demise of the Children's
        Bureau have much to tell parents, politicians, and policy-makers everywhere.

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The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews
Maurice Samuels
University of Chicago Press, 2016
Library of Congress DS135.F83S25 2016 | Dewey Decimal 305.8924044

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country’s Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious affiliations. This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the debate by showing that French equality has not always demanded an erasure of differences. Through close and contextualized readings of the way that major novelists, philosophers, filmmakers, and political figures have struggled with the question of integrating Jews into French society, Maurice Samuels draws lessons about how the French have often understood the universal in relation to the particular.

Samuels demonstrates that Jewish difference has always been essential to the elaboration of French universalism, whether as its foil or as proof of its reach. He traces the development of this discourse through key moments in French history, from debates over granting Jews civil rights during the Revolution, through the Dreyfus Affair and Vichy, and up to the rise of a “new antisemitism” in recent years. By recovering the forgotten history of a more open, pluralistic form of French universalism, Samuels points toward new ways of moving beyond current ethnic and religious dilemmas and argues for a more inclusive view of what constitutes political discourse in France.

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A Right to Health: Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil
By Jessica Scott Jerome
University of Texas Press, 2015
Library of Congress RA418.3.B6J47 2015 | Dewey Decimal 362.10981

In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health care services and to redefine health as a citizen’s right and a duty of the state. A Right to Health explores how these goals have unfolded within an urban peripheral community located on the edges of the northeastern city of Fortaleza. Focusing on the decade 1998–2008 and the impact of health care reforms on one low-income neighborhood, Jessica Jerome documents the tensions that arose between the ideals of the reforms and their entanglement with pervasive socioeconomic inequality, neoliberal economic policy, and generational tension with the community.

Using ethnographic and historical research, the book traces the history of political activism in the community, showing that, since the community’s formation in the early 1930s, residents have consistently fought for health care services. In so doing, Jerome develops a multilayered portrait of urban peripheral life and suggests that the notion of health care as a right of each citizen plays a major role not only in the way in which health care is allocated, but, perhaps more importantly, in how health care is understood and experienced.

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A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965
Patterson Toby Graham
University of Alabama Press, 2006
Library of Congress Z711.9.G73 2002 | Dewey Decimal 027.4761

This original and significant contribution to the historiography of the civil rights movement and education in the South details a dramatic and disturbing chapter in American cultural history.

The tradition of American public libraries is closely tied to the perception that these institutions are open to all without regard to social background. Such was not the case in the segregated South, however, where public libraries barred entry to millions of African Americans and provided tacit support for a culture of white supremacy. A Right to Read is the first book to examine public library segregation from its origins in the late 19th century through its end during the tumultuous years of the 1960s civil rights movement. Graham focuses on Alabama, where African Americans, denied access to white libraries, worked to establish and maintain their own "Negro branches." These libraries-separate but never equal-were always underfunded and inadequately prepared to meet the needs of their constituencies.

By 1960, however, African Americans turned their attention toward desegregating the white public libraries their taxes helped support. They carried out "read-ins" and other protests designed to bring attention and judicial pressure upon the segregationists. Patterson Toby Graham contends that, for librarians, the civil rights movement in their institutions represented a conflict of values that pitted their professional ethics against regional mores. He details how several librarians in Alabama took the dangerous course of opposing segregationists, sometimes with unsettling results.

This groundbreaking work built on primary evidence will have wide cross-disciplinary appeal. Students and scholars of southern and African-American history, civil rights, and social science, as well as academic and public librarians, will appreciate Graham's solid research and astute analysis.

Patterson Toby Graham is Head of Special Collections at the University
of Southern Mississippi. His research on library segregation has won four
awards, including the ALISE-Eugene Garfield Dissertation Award.

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Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Harvard University Press, 1993
Library of Congress BX6447.H54 1993 | Dewey Decimal 286.133082

What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham’s nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women’s groups.

Higginbotham’s history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a “politics of respectability” and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities.

Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.

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RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: Religion and the Populist Revolution
Joe Creech
University of Illinois Press, 2010
Library of Congress BR525.C74 2006 | Dewey Decimal 277.3081

Righteous Indignation uncovers what motivated conservative, mostly middle-class southern farmers to revolt against the Democratic Party by embracing the radical, even revolutionary biracial politics of the People’s Party in the 1890s. While other historians of Populism have looked to economics, changing markets, or various ideals to explain this phenomenon, in Righteous Indignation, Joe Creech posits evangelical religion as the motive force behind the shift.

This illuminating study shows how Populists wove their political and economic reforms into a grand cosmic narrative pitting the forces of God and democracy against those of Satan and tyranny, and energizing their movement with a sacred sense of urgency. This book also unpacks the southern Protestants’ complicated approach to political and economic questions, as well as addressing broader issues about protest movements, race relations, and the American South.

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Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India
Ananya Vajpeyi
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress JA84.I4V23 2012 | Dewey Decimal 320.0954

What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought.

Taking five of the most important founding figures-Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar-Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India's founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence.

Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India's struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.

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