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Invasive Birds

Global Trends and Impacts

by Alexander Cruz, Tim Adriaens, Craig R Allen, Michael L Avery, Alexander V Badyaev, Fabrice M Brescia, Sarah E Britton, Daniel M Brooks, Jessica L. Burnett, Matthew Burnett, Corey T Callaghan, César Capinha, Jen Cele, Jameson F Chace, Jocelyn Champagnon, Alice Cibois, Andrew Close, Alyssa R Conn, Richard T Corlett, Adrian J F K Craig, Amy E Dunham, James A Eaton, David A Ehlers Smith, Yvette C Ehlers Smith, Mike W Eichholz, Johan Elmberg, Cyril Eraud, Chris L Feare, Jason M Gleditsch, Guillaume G Gayet, Matthieu Guillemain, Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito, Haley E Hanson, Iain Henderson, Frank Huysentruyt, John G Innes, Salit Kark, Michael R Leven, Ricardo J Lopes, Jean-Francois Maillard, Ndivhuwo Maligana, Chloe I Marcheli, Lynn B Martin, Blake A Mathys, Erik Matthysen, Myriam E Mermoz, Jean-Yves Meyer, Dai K J Morgan, Katherine G Ohman, Claire Pernollet, Murray A Potter, Bill Pranty, Juan Carlos Reboreda, Eileen C Rees, Luís Reino, Joana Ribeiro, Peter A Robertson, Andrew M Rogers, Philip D Round, Joana Santana, Cavin T Shivambu, Neftalí Sillero, Preshnee Singh, Pär Söderquist, Karina L Speziale, Diederik Strubbe, Martin J P Sullivan, Jean-Claude Thibault, Martin Thibault, Berndt J van Rensburg, Eric Vidal, Joseph R Waas, Amy-Leigh Wilson, Katherine Winston, Kevin A Wood, Pierre Yésou, Ding Li Yong, Jaime E Zolik ...

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural ... Read more

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Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural
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Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Petitioning Women

by Amy Dunham Strand ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning – a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls “political prayer” – in their literary works. At a time when petitioning was historically ... Read more

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Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning – a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls “political prayer” – in their literary works. At a time when petitioning was historically
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Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919

by Amy Dunham Strand ...

Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by 19th-century sociopolitical transformations. Together with popular commentary about language in ... Read more

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Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by 19th-century sociopolitical transformations. Together with popular commentary about language in
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The Delectable Negro

Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

by Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson ...

Series Book 34 - Sexual Cultures
A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... Read more

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A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation
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Scenes of Subjection

Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

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The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In
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The Solitude of Self

Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

by Vivian Gornick ...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that women's ... Read more

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that women's
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Disaffected

The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

by Xine Yao ...

Series series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far ... Read more

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In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far
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Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

by Nancy Isenberg ...

Series series Gender and American Culture
With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women’s rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas — before and after 1848 — that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women’s rights activists of the antebellum ... Read more

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With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women’s rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas — before and after 1848 — that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women’s rights activists of the antebellum
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Writing Deafness

The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Christopher Krentz ...

Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

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Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their
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The Color of Sex

Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

by Mason Stokes, Donald E. Pease ...

Series series New Americanists
In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

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In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire
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Family Money

Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

by Jeffory Clymer ...

Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child ... Read more

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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child
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A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass

by Neil Roberts ...

Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
"A splendid opportunity to rethink Douglass's political thought . . . relevant today given the discourse of white nationalism in the United States." — ChoiceFrederick Douglass was a writer and public speaker whose impact on America has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. ... Read more

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"A splendid opportunity to rethink Douglass's political thought . . . relevant today given the discourse of white nationalism in the United States." — ChoiceFrederick Douglass was a writer and public speaker whose impact on America has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T.
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