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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that...
- Keyword:
- social science, journalism, women's studies, and morality
- Subject:
- Social sciences and Women's studies
- Creator:
- Kroeger, Brooke and Hamill, Pete
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2619-0 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6351-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
- Keyword:
- The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, realism, and Anna Karenina
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Russia
- Creator:
- Kitzinger, Chloë
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4398-2, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4397-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4396-8
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- Contemporary Ethiopian is, without question, facing enormous challenges. At the core of these challenges lay a state-building process major constituencies and elite groups were either alienated from, forced to acquiesce to, or coopted into. Unable to derive political legitimacy from democratic participation, successive governments largely relied on coercion and neopatrimonialism,...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, managing diversity, constitutional law, law, states' rights, Ethiopia, political science, consociationalism, federalism, democratization, constitutionalism, intersectionality, and ethnic federalism
- Subject:
- Law and Political Science
- Creator:
- Dr. Juweria Ali, Loid Taye, Dr. Solomon Negussie, Melhik A. Bekele, Fowsia Abdulkadir, Dr. Christophe Van der Beken, Rediet Baye Ayalew, Professor Thomas Geraghty, Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis, Teguadda Alebachew, Dr. Abchu Wassihun, Dr. Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew, Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha, Dr. Mizanie Abate Tadesse, Dr. Getachew Assefa Wodemariam, Dr. Semir Yusuf, Abduletif Kedir Idris, Dr. Aberra Degefa, Kokebe Wolde Jemaneh, Dr. Kalkidan Negash Obse, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, Dr. Zemalek Ayitenew Ayele, Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Dr. Abdi Jibril, Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen, Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Dr. Adem K. Abebe, Dr. Mohammed Dejan Assen, Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Gossaye Ayele, Dr. Yitayew Alemayehu, Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, and Dr. Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew
- Contributor:
- Mezgebu Tesema (cover art) and May Malone (cover design)
- Owner:
- Basia Kapolka
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries and Northwestern University Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-06-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspiration from a...
- Keyword:
- Twenty-first century, forecasting, and social prediction
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Schapiro, Morton and Morson, Gary Saul
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3197-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3198-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3196-5
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- Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- decolonization, reparations, intimacies, and feminisms
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Political science
- Creator:
- Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4244-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4242-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4243-5
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- In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- film theory, captive, Lacan, and confinement
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Psychology
- Creator:
- Connelly, Thomas J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3922-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3923-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3921-3
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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Tennessee. Learn more at the TOME website,... and A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this...
- Keyword:
- anti-racism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sister Nivedita, internationalism, literary criticism, comparative literature, interpretive communities, translation studies, anti-colonialism, postcolonial theory, Rabindranath Tagore, Sonja Schlesin, and Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Subject:
- Comparative literature
- Creator:
- Lahiri, Madhumita
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4266-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4268-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4267-1
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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Michigan State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available... and This book begins by tracing the history of naturalist fiction from the 1860s into the twentieth century and the reasons it spread around the world. Hill explores the development of three naturalist figures—the degenerate body, the self-liberated woman, and the social milieu—through close readings of fiction from France, Japan, and...
- Keyword:
- Argentina, translation, transnational, world literature, France, naturalism, comparison, Alexander Beecroft, United States, Latin America, Mariano Siskind, Erich Auerbach, realism, Emile Zola, Brazil, Japan, Aamir Mufti, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, novel, Damrosch, and global
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Laing Hill, Christopher
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4215-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4216-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4214-5
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- Description:
- Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments,... and This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Minnesota. Learn more at the TOME website,...
- Keyword:
- theatre and early modern history
- Subject:
- Medieval and early modern world and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4470-5 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4472-9 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4471-2
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