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A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture 3Text, Context and Hermeneutics

Selen Morkoc

The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization 3The Question of Unite or Perish

Moye Goodwin Bongyu

Art Matters 4The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art

Bernard Koenig

Authority, Dogma and History 4The Role of the Oxford Movement Converts in the Papal Infallibility Debates

Kenneth Parker and Michael J. Pahls, Editors

Beyond the Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual

Angelica J. Huizar

British Novelists and Indian Nationalism 6Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith

Fatma Kalpakli

Christopher Fry 6A Dramatic Reassessment of the Fry/Eliot Era of British Verse Drama

Frances Jessup

The Collected Stories of Lanoe Falconer 7

Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Rowland

The Committee of Vigilance 8The Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916–1919

Steven C. Levi

The Dead and the Quick 8Clichés and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures of Britain, The United States and France

Walter Redfern

The Decline of Nature 9Environmental History and the Western Worldview

Gilbert F. LaFreniere

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The English Girl Schools’ Story 9Subversion and Challenge in a Traditional Conservative Literary Genre

Judith Humphrey

Ernst Weiss 10Life, Works and Legacy of a Czech Literary Master and Friend of Franz Kafka, 1882–1940

Pamela Saur

Europeanism and European Union 11Interests, Emotions and Systemic Integration in the Early European Economic Union, 1954–1966

Jeffrey Vanke

Form and Perception in Visual Poetry 11

Laura Lopez-Fernandez

“Going Down Hill” 12Legacies of the American Revolutionary War

Harry M. Ward

The Life Of George Borrow, 1803–1881 12Misfit, Traveler and Author of Genius

Michael Collie

Living Anarchy 13Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements

Jeff Shantz

The New Medical Sociology 14Compelling Current Narratives

Irwin Sperber

The Oral Traditions in Ile-Ife 14The Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment

Yemi D. Ogunyemi

Orientalism in Sinology 15

Adrian Chan

The Origin of Culture 15

Amy Louise Marsland and William D. Marsland

Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870–1914 15

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Gregory F. Tague, Editors

The Road From Eden 16Studies in Christianity and Culture

John Barber

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Science on Four Wheels 17The European Travels of Roderick Murchison

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Ted Hughes’ Art of Healing 17Into Time and Other People

Daniel Xerri

The Unobtrusive Miss Hawker 18The Life and Works of “Lanoe Falconer”, Late Victorian Novelist and Short Story Writer, 1848–1908

Peter Rowland

Voting in American Elections 18The Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788

Walter Dean Burnham with Thomas Ferguson and Louis Ferleger

Walter Benjamin’s Transit 19A Destructive Tour of Modernism

Stephanie Polsky

Washington Irving and Spain 20The Romantic Movement, The Re/Creation of Islamic Andalusia and the Critical Reception

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Becoming Gauchos Ingeleses 23Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature

Edmundo Murray

Clearing the Tangled Wood 23Poetry as a Way of Seeing the World

James Lawless

Homophobic Bullying in Irish Secondary Education 24

James O’Higgins-Norman

Irish American Folklore in New England 24

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The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West 25

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Barber, John 16Bongyu, Moye Goodwin 3Burnham, Walter Dean 18Chan, Adrian 15Collie, Michael 12, 17Donovan,Julie 26Ferguson, Thomas 18Ferleger, Louis 18Huizar, Angelica J. 5Humphrey, Judith 9Jessup, Frances 6Kalpakli, Fatma 6Koenig, Bernard 4Kurlantzick, Lewis 29LaFreniere, Gilbert F. 9Lawless, James 23Levi, Steven C. 8Lopez-Fernandez, Laura 11Marsland, Amy Louise 15Marsland, William D. 15Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel 15Morkoc, Selen 3Murray, Edmundo 23Ogunyemi, Yemi D. 14O’Higgins-Norman, James 24Pahls, Michael J. 4Parker, Kenneth 4Polsky, Stephanie 19Quinn, E. Moore 24Quintelli-Neary, Marguerite 25Redfern, Walter 8Rowland, Peter 7, 18Saur, Pamela 10Shantz, Jeff 13Sperber, Irwin 14Tague, Gregory F. 15Vanke, Jeffrey 11Wallhead, Celia 20Ward, Harry M. 12Xerri, Daniel 17

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HISTORY AND IDE AS SERIES, NO.3

A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture Text, Context and Hermeneutics

Selen Morkoc

It is widely accepted that documents on Ottoman architects are rare and that little is known about the architectural practice in the Ottoman world. A group of texts that have appeared between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however, form an exception to this general assumption. While these texts have been cited and referred to in diverse previous studies on Ottoman architecture, they have not been the topic of a major interpretative approach before. A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context and Hermeneutics is the first interpretive and comparative research monograph to feature these texts as its main theme. This is the first translation of these works that contextualizes and interprets their importance in English.

The first text is a group of five documents that date back to the sixteenth century. They comprise memoirs and building lists written in prose and verse which belonged to prominent Ottoman architect Sinan. The second text was written under the influence of the first group of documents and is in a similar format. It comprises a memoir dedicated to Sedefkar Mehmed Ağa, who worked as the chief imperial architect in the seventeenth century, and also provides information on architectural terms and makes comparisons between architecture and music. The third text is different from the first two: it is a monograph about the Selimiye Mosque written in prose in the eighteenth century by Dayezade Mustafa, who was a complete outsider to architecture. While the three texts have quite different historical and thematic contexts their point in common is their rendering of architecture through narratives. From a hermeneutical perspective, the book compares narratives of the texts with contemporary historiography on Ottoman architecture.

ISBN 978-1-933146-54-6 / 193314654-0

Release Date Copyright Pages Format Price10/2009 2010 364 Hardcover $79.95

The African State and Asymmetrical GlobalizationThe Question of Unite or Perish

Moye Goodwin Bongyu

Dr. Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life. The work starts with the present situation in Black Africa and various attempts at regional and continent wide unity by 53 national entities. Next Bongyu

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approaches the problems of macro-level economics, governance and attempts at unity in the face of globalization. The study ends with new players coming into the African arena—China, the Gulf States and Brazil. The efforts to salvage the continent undertaken by Africans themselves and aided by friends abroad may indeed be the next new thing to emerge from Africa...Ex Africa Semper Nova.

ISBN 978-1-933146-68-3 / 1933146-68-0


Art MattersThe Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art

Bernard Koenig

Art Matters is a clear and comprehensive overview of art criticism as it relates to both the value of art and the aesthetics of art. The author offers a new perspective on how science, philosophy and art overlap each other, the author argues that art can give us knowledge of our world and our place in it the same way that science or philosophy do (per se Deleuze or Kristeva). Koenig extents his discussion to incorporate both fiction and music into the notional forms of classical visual art in a dramatic and unexpected way.

“Koenig’s impressive book reminds us of the eternal importance of the essential act of human creation.” Richard Moule, CBC

“Art Matters: Knowledge of Art/Art of Knowledge, Bernie Koenig has provided a book on aesthetics for which both theorists and practitioners of art have been waiting. For several decades there has been disenchantment with the dominant

“emotive” understanding of the experience of art—that such encounters release certain satisfying experiences within us. But Koenig has returned us with considerable erudition and insight to what we all knew: art is a deeply significant way of knowing the natural and human world.” Professor Bernard Hodgson, D/Philosophy, Trent University

ISBN 978-1-933146-58-4 / 193314658-3

Release Date Copyright Pages Format Price12/2008 2009 292 Paperback $49.95

Authority, Dogma and HistoryThe Role of the Oxford Movement Converts in the Papal Infallibility Debates

Kenneth Parker and Michael J. Pahls, Editors

As the force that gave birth to Anglo-Catholicism, the Oxford Movement is generally treated as an Anglican phenomenon. Yet the influence of members who converted to Roman Catholicism proved decisive for the years leading up to the

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First Vatican Council and the definition of papal infallibility in Pastor Aeternus (1870). This collection of original essays edited by Parker and Pahls, explores how various Oxford Movement converts to Roman Catholicism contributed to debates surrounding papal infallibility in the 1850s, 1860s and beyond.

From Henry Cardinal Manning and Msgr. George Talbot (a chamberlain to Pius 1X) to John Henry Cardinal Newman and Richard Simpson (a liberal Catholic journalist), the diverse voices of these converts marshaled arguments on both sides of the debate and played substantial roles in framing the outcome.

ISBN 978-1-933146-44-3 / 1933146-44-3


Beyond the PageLatin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual

Angelica J. Huizar

This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples. The investigative scope of the study is large—it includes texts from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil and includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Through detailed analysis Professor Huizar demonstrates what we can read in the visual and sound components of these poems as performance on a page, and while these may be limited on the bound text, they do produce a “performativity” that is predictive of current technological innovations of the canon whose performative and interactive aspects include the latest multi-media technologies resulting in forms as cyber poetry and hypertextuality, electronic music and pictorial language.

“This is one of the first studies in this area of research and opens new ground for specialists. It offers a comprehensive as well as an analytical view of theinterdisciplinary practices …something lacking in previous studies in Latin American poetry. Recommended.” Professor Laura Lopez-Fernandez, University of Canterbury

ISBN 978-1-933146-41-6 / 1933146-41-9





British Novelists and Indian NationalismContrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith

Fatma Kalpakli

This is an intriguing and groundbreaking study by a scholar who not only is not British nor Indian but belongs to a society that has had its own imperial history as well as having a strong, revitalizing nationalist movement in the 20th c. It is through this prism that Dr Kapakli discusses, compares and contrasts Indian nationalism in three seminal novels. The novels in question are Shadow of the Moon (1957) by Mary Margaret Kaye, The Siege of Knishnapur (1973) by James Gordon Smith and White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith. The literary analysis undertaken focuses on the changes in attitude and expectation the British writers demonstrate in navigating the issues of race, class, gender, religion, education and age in both Indian and European characters and settings. Especially interesting is the discussion of male/female relationships and the transgressive energies of nationalism in determining power and position in pre- and post-independent India and, indeed, in England itself. Religion is also discussed especially the collision of Christian, Hindu and Muslim practice in the face of historical imperatives and societal tension.

ISBN 978-1-933146-77-5 / 1933146-77-X


Christopher FryA Dramatic Reassessment of the Fry/Eliot Era of British Verse Drama

Frances Jessup

This monograph based on original research and interpretation extends and enlightens our understanding of one of the seminal moments of 20th c British theatre—the rise of the verse drama and the re invigoration of Christian belief based on historical figures on England’s past. The study places Christopher Fry back in the literary canon and argues for his centrality—albeit a brief one—in dramatic history. Fry’s life and works are discussed; a careful reading of the major and minor works is included.

Chapter 1: Christopher Fry’s Life HistoryChapter 2: Poetic Drama and FryChapter 3: Tragedy or ComedyChapter 4: The MysteryChapter 5: Fry and Eliot: The Spark and the StoneChapter 6: Choice and Original SinChapter 7: The Heretic vs. The ChurchmanChapter 8: Fry’s Moses and the Biblical Moses

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Chapter 9: Fry’s CombatantsChapter 10: Caedmon Construed or One Thing MoreChapter 11: Fry’s Style in Early and in Later Plays

ISBN 978-1-933146-62-1 / 1933146-62-1


The Collected Stories of Lanoe Falconer

Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Rowland

Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908), who wrote from 1890 onwards under the pseudonym of Lanoe Falconer, is remembered today primarily as the author of two best-selling novellas (Mademoiselle Ixe and Cecilia de Noël), five brilliant short stories (published under the title Hôtel d’Angleterre) and a slim volume of wonderful reminiscences entitled Old Hampshire Vignettes. All of these will be found in Collected Tales—but they are reinforced by eight additional short stories, one additional novella (Shoulder to Shoulder) and one additional vignette. These supplementary items, buried in the archives for more than a century, are now brought to light by Peter Rowland, Hawker’s biographer, after much patient research and dedicated delving. They are accompanied by a short series of penetrating Character Sketches, intended for a book (or books) that would never be written, plus an article on how to tackle short stories. Bearing additional witness to Lanoe Falconer’s astonishing range and versatility, this fresh material makes Collected Tales a unique and invaluable volume—one not to be missed by the growing army of this remarkable writer’s fans.

ISBN 978-1-933146-81-2 / 1933146-81-8


Also by this author...

The Unobtrusive Miss HawkerThe Life and Works of “Lanoe Falconer”, Late Victorian Novelist and Short Story Writer, 1848–1908

Please see page 18 for a full description.

ISBN 978-1-933146-63-8 / 1933146-63-X





The Committee of VigilanceThe Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916–1919

Steven C. Levi

In The Committee of Vigilance Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees—and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out “Un-American activities” among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst (along with the Los Angeles Times bombing several years earlier) for full scale civic strife and class violence in San Francisco. The committee railroaded two men to the death house—Tom Mooney and Warren Billings—and their cause became one of the most celebrated in Socialist and Communist movements throughout the world in the 20’s and 30’s. Levi has done more research on the bombing and its polarizing aftermath since his first research monograph 30 years ago. This work includes new material on terror and American culture as well as discussions of material that has only become public in the last few decades.

With illustrations.

ISBN 978-1-933146799 / 1933146-79-6


The Dead and the QuickClichés and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures of Britain, The United States and France

Walter Redfern

This work is a major contribution to the study of clichés and neologisms since it moves beyond considering them separately into their interlinked role in written, spoken and visual cultures in contemporary Britain, France and the United States. The general line of attack is a view of language as both reactionary and revolutionary. Language, Dr. Redfern points out, connives in our clinging to obsolete “realities”, and yet is constantly evolving by processes of displacement and substitution. Despite the allegedly static nature of cliché, this study focuses on the dynamic potentialities of language, whether via the reanimation of moribund ideas or by coinages from scratch.

Analyzed in depth are: imitation, rumor, political correctness, jargon, euphemism, plagiarism, stereotyping (racial or otherwise), repetition, and caricature. This leads to a broader assessment of unthinking prose in English and French (“constipated thinking”) as well as various tactics for resisting and countervailing such practices. Linguistic creativity is discussed and the widespread hostility to new words is demonstrated by discussions of language purification and other protection systems. As well as written and spoken forms of cliché and neologism, Redfern studies the

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visual domain (e.g. kitsch and the neomorphisms of psychotics) in a brief, witty summary of the issues at hand.

ISBN 978-1-933146-76-8 / 193314676-1


The Decline of NatureEnvironmental History and the Western Worldview

Gilbert F. LaFreniere

The Decline of Nature is an environmental history of the ideas embedded in a compact account of Western civilization’s ecological impact upon the planet, particularly in Europe and its former colonies. The major thesis presented is the idea that two speculative philosophies of history (attempts to understand the meaning of history) and their associated worldviews have been largely responsible for destructive attitudes and behaviors towards nature. They include the idea of providence (i.e. the Christian worldview) and the idea of progress (the science and technology-based vision of unrestrained economic development and material accumulation since the 17th century). Some scholars understand the idea of progress as a secularization of the Christian millennium, the creation of a new Eden through science and technology. Professor LaFreniere’s research has been acknowledged as cutting edge and his work has been praised by a number of leading historians in the field.

ISBN 978-1-933146-40-9 / 1933146-40-0

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ISBN 978-1-933146-51-5 / 1933146-51-6

Release Date Copyright Pages Format Price 07/2007 2008 476 Paperback $34.95

The English Girl Schools’ StorySubversion and Challenge in a Traditional Conservative Literary Genre

Judith Humphrey

The English girls’ boarding school novel was staple reading for girls, not just in England, through the first half of the twentieth century. Generally dismissed as sentimental hack writing, these stories were immensely popular. Dr. Humphrey, who had loved the books as a child, discovered in adulthood that she was still enamored of them. Her search for why the books still hold up turned into a dissertation. She concentrates on the genre as a whole, finding several important similarities. The most important ones involve the independence and strength of young women living in an all female environment The chapters elucidate




the positive messages that the books contain: a respect for intelligence and learning, women as self directed, women active in sports, women in authority and, importantly, the bonds of female friendship.

Humphrey makes it clear that although some attitudes have changed, too many girls still see themselves as incomplete without a boyfriend and always secondary to him. Humphrey’s reevaluation of girls’ school books makes one want to find some and read them again.

ISBN 978-1-933146-50-8 / 193314650-8


Ernst WeissLife, Works and Legacy of a Czech Literary Master and Friend of Franz Kafka, 1882–1940

Pamela Saur

Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). Weiss was born in Moravia and studied medicine, in Vienna and Prague. One of many of Jewish exile writers who fled the Nazi regime, Weiss committed suicide in Paris when German troops entered the city in the summer of 1940. Weiss wrote one of the few novels about Adolf Hitler during the Fuehrer’s life. This work, using an eye doctor as narrator, was an experimental tour de force. His next novel, the Expressionist masterpiece, Nahar, was about a female tiger who had once been human. His fiction merges influences of Expressionism, his own medical background, literary interactions with his friends Joseph Roth, Joseph Brod and Franz Kafka, as well as a Freudian emphasis on human drives, obsessions and compulsions. This is the first comprehensive assessment in English of the life and legacy of an important, underrated voice from mid twentieth century Central Europe.

Weiss had a wide body of friends and colleagues including Artur Schnitzler and Karl Kraus as well as Kafka, Brod and Roth. He was a pioneer in modern travel writing undertaken when he was a ship’s doctor in the Pacific. His work is only now coming under serious reconsideration. This monograph includes a robust bibliography and index as well as samples of the author’s oeuvre.

ISBN 978-1-93314672-0 / 1933146-72-9


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Europeanism and European UnionInterests, Emotions and Systemic Integration in the early European Economic Union, 1954–1966

Jeffrey Vanke

The fact of postwar European integration is only half of an extraordinary story. The six founding countries were distinct from their neighbors and from their own histories. After 1945, the Six recast their nationalisms not only to discard extremism, but also to adopt Europeanism—an emotive drive to create unprecedented institutions of European unity. At the intersection of their Europeanized nationalisms and their interests, the Six founded the European Economic Community, the core of today’s European Union (EU). The early Community answered security and economic concerns. But the place and timing of its postwar founding point to the third and crucial force, emotive solidarity. Only the Six transformed very strong national solidarity communities to include medium-strength European solidarity as an essential, broad, and deep national characteristic.

“It (the monograph) is both a deliberate and meaningful implementation of the cultural approach and a fine analysis of the turning points during the first two decades (1945-57, 1958-66) at which three of the four closely studied countries (the Netherlands, France, and Germany), redefined, albeit in their own ways, their respective nationalism to include Europeanism, whereas the British emphasized their attachment to their domestic model, the Commonwealth and the Atlantic vision. ...Recommended for research libraries.” Professor Gustav Schmidt Faculty of International Relations, Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany

ISBN 978-1-93314674-4 / 1933146-74-5


Form and Perception in Visual Poetry

Laura Lopez-Fernandez

Form and Perception in Visual Poetry is one of the first serious monographs in English that explores what is defined as Visual Poetry. This intermediate genre has its own characteristics. It demands inclusion of a number of disciplines: philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, literature, painting and graphic design, etc. As with many an emergent area of study an interdisciplinary approach takes into account new perspectives of analysis while maintaining respect for traditional methods of approach to poetry.

This work discusses the increasing techno-visual elements of poetry creation and, by studying the possible mechanisms of perceptions, helps the reader/researcher understand the complex artistic and cultural paradigm thus presented. Material is developed that helps the “reading” and “decoding” process stimulated by an




unusual combination of elements in poetic discourse and example. There is research work on the semantics of verbal and visual images, color and form. General Gestalt Theory is employed in discussions of form, rhythm, representation, projection and interpretation. A number of poems and poets are discussed from the Anglosphere as well as Spanish language traditions of Spain and Latin America.

With illustrations.

ISBN 978-1-9331426-3 / 193314642-7


“Going Down Hill”Legacies of the American Revolutionary War

Harry M. Ward

This research monograph by a senior distinguished historian of the American Revolutionary War and its aftermath discusses the legacies of that conflict in a newer, darker context. That context is one of growing American imperial hubris, overreach and permanent war abroad as well as economic and social decay of American homeland. Dr Ward dismisses the notion of a wholly beneficial and positive revolutionary outcome and discusses the less admirable and tragic implications of a national war/civil war that drove many thousands of Americans from their country, destroyed numerous native American societies, enshrined human slavery in its constitution and has lead to several tragic and bloody existential crises in 19th and 20th century American history.

The author is well aware of a prime rule of historiography--avoid as much as possible present mindedness. The rule, however, does not seem too applicable when writing about legacies. Because the whole spectrum of American history since the Revolutionary War comes under a purview that is broad, selective and cogently discussed with brilliant insights as well as forceful lessons for the present. Ward discusses the road we have traveled so that we may better understand where we are today and how we got there.

ISBN 978-1-933146-57-7 / 193314657-5


The Life Of George Borrow, 1803–1881Misfit, Traveler and Author of Genius

Michael Collie

“It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.” George Borrow

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First, the subtitle of this completely revised and newly augmented study of George Borrow, “Misfit” implies not subscribing or submitting to normal, mainstream middle-class values and habits. Borrow preferred the company of gypsies, vagabonds, foreigners, horse-dealers and outsiders to the conformist, respectable English person, whom he thought was sometimes incapable of understanding the realities of the human condition, or simply preferred to evade them. In 1984, this was the intended meaning of the word “eccentric”; someone with valid, personal priorities, not in the main stream, away from the centre, free to be critical of aspects of English life he regarded as false or shallow or unworthy. Borrow did not subscribe to other people’s view of how life should be conducted; his publications are the expression of this freedom.

George Borrow Eccentric (1984) was guarded in its treatment of biographical questions. Collie discusses some key unresolved issues in Borrows life: the question of paternity (did he and his brother have the same father?); the condition for which mercury treatment was prescribed (if not syphilis, then what?); the person behind the name “Isobel Berners” (can she be securely identified?); his Bible Society accounts (where was he during the periods unaccounted for?); his sexuality (why did he marry Mrs Clarke?); his religious convictions (do his writings express faith or cynicism on this score?); and his loneliness (the loneliness of a sharp, perceptive intellect without intended companionship?). Collie’s study calmly, carefully and thoroughly discusses the new research tools and information that bring us even closer to the man, the works and the issues confronted by anyone who writes his literary biography.

ISBN 978-1-933146706 / 1933146-70-2


Living AnarchyTheory and Practice in Anarchist Movements

Jeff Shantz

While corporate media discussions of anarchists tend to focus on battles with police and destruction of corporate property, this work is focused on more constructive aspects of anarchism. In this “analytical memoir,” Sociologist Jeff Shantz describes anarchist projects for developing and nurturing non-authoritarian mutual aid projects such as free schools, squats, communications projects, and “autonomous zones.” He assesses these projects in the context of sociological theories of social movement organization and the writings of anarchist theorists such as Colin Ward, Paul Goodman, Gustav Landauer, Hakim Bey, and Sam Dolgoff.

ISBN 978-1-933146-53-9 /193314653-2





The New Medical SociologyCompelling Current Narratives

Irwin Sperber

In the tradition of C. Wright Mills and Irving Goffman, this monograph brings current research and insight to a social science research area famed for its fissiparous polemical battles. Sperber surveys the field from Durkheim to the present and discusses both the origins of the Radical and neo-Marxist perspective as well as the mainstream, functionalist school of research. The work’s unique theoretical contribution lies in several areas: Sperber proposes that some of the diseases of modern civilization (Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, cancer, systemic lupus, heart disease, chronic depression among others) can be effectively explained, diagnosed and treated only when a systematic sociological perspective is brought to bear on them. Sperber also argues forcefully for a progressive, critical view of the field in language that is clear and persuasive.

ISBN 978-1-933146-56-0 / 193314656-7


The Oral Traditions in Ile-IfeThe Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment

Yemi D. Ogunyemi

This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ile-Ife) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, politics, religion and literature.

Coverage includes chapters on Yoruba origins and ancestry as described in the Ile-Ife, the cultural and trading centers, The Advent of Sacred Literature, referring to the importance of the oral literature. Next, ethical values are discussed and contemporary African anthropological and social science research is analyzed as a tool to describe Yoruba ethical values. The Royal Scrolls are discussed and their role in developing a written language and a school of philosophy is investigated. Material on naming [Olodumare and other divinities], family life, and the dispersal of the oral tradition to other neighboring regions conclude the work.

ISBN 978-1-933146-65-2 / 1933146-65-6


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Orientalism in Sinology

Adrian Chan

When Edward Said popularized Orientalism as a term and a concept, he applied it to Western attitudes and assumptions about the Middle East. Professor Chan (UNU) shows how the same factors are at play in Sinology, which he describes as a study of certain aspects of Chinese culture that are reported and filtered by western observers since the late European Middle Ages and traditionally have a strong religious bias.

ISBN 978-1-933146-61-4 / 193314661-3


The Origin of Culture

Amy Louise Marsland and William D. Marsland

The Marslands, long time academics, present their theories on the ways in which human behaviors are grounded in prehistoric, even genetic, elements. Based on the work of James Frazer, Mircea Eliade. Georges Dumezil and Claude Levi-Strauss, among others, they address the creation of myth, development of religion, symbols, festivals, and relation to the animal world. In these they find beliefs and behaviors common to all societies, adapted to local environments. Their study is more of a thought piece, since none of their examples are footnoted. A look at the bibliography shows many authors (including Frazer) whose work has been challenged and superseded in recent years.

ISBN 978-1-933146-47-8 / 193314647-8


Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870–1914

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Gregory F. Tague, Editors

The aim of this volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre. The editors have focused on the essence of creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914). The resultant study discusses Gordon Craig and production design, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Pinero, Strindberg, Harley Granville Barker, Jones, Archer, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Galsworthy, Sims, women playwrights, popular theatre among other topics.




The work complements J.L.Styan’s 3 volume Modern Drama in Theory and Practice and is more focused on late 19th/early 20th c transitions and dramatic breakthroughs than Modern British Drama of Christopher Innes.

“Recommended...” Professor Denis Donoghue, Henry James University Professor, NY University

ISBN 978-1-9331466-66-9 / 1933146-66-4


The Road From EdenStudies in Christianity and Culture

John Barber

This is a major research study of the effect of Reform Theology on European and American visual and material cultures. It offers an analysis of Christianity and culture that builds on the scholarship of Arnold Toynbee and Francis Schaeffer and utilizes the careful analytical tools of the Dutch scholars Vollenhoven, Dooyeward and others. Barber’s audacious scholarship aims to put Reform Christianity in the center of change and interpretation in a way similar to the great Catholic and Orthodox cultural historians. Barber discusses the Biblical centered energies that clarify, justify and interpret the culture of Western Civilization.

“Barber has mastered and/or referenced a huge amount of literature. His book is a great resource…his arguments careful, cogent and revealing. I hope his argument has a great deal of influence on the church…it is like a mighty force for reformation, revival and cultural renewal. There has never been anything like it (as a single volume) in Reform literature. Recommended.” John Frame Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

With both b/w line and illustrations: 35.

ISBN 9781933146-71-3 / 1-933146-71-0


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Science on Four WheelsThe European Travels of Roderick Murchison

Michael Collie

Professor Collie has studied and written about Sir Roderick Murchison in several monographs. This study deals with Murchison and the wider and more general activity of scientific travels in the mid 19th C. This work introduces the reader to the practices of intellectual and cultural exchange in Continental Europe. These exchanges, despite the political pressures that often mitigated against the free flow of ideas, were increased as steam power and telegraphs made their way from west to east and intrepid savants, such as the eminent geologist Muchison. Each chapter is devoted to a specific journey as adventure, exploration, scientific enquiry, peer group contacts and personal, sometimes psychologically significant experience. Taken together they show the one time President of the Geological Society of London converting himself into the President of the Royal Geographical Society especially due to his travels in Eurasian Russia.

Chapter One: Early Travel in Scotland, Hebrides, the Far NorthChapter Two: Overland from Paris to St Petersburg via RigaChapter Three: Baden-Baden to Krakow via Berlin, Poznan[Posen] and Warsaw by foot, horseback,Landau and train.Chapter Four: Stockholm to Mora via Uppsala, then coast route Gotland, southern Sweden and LundChapter Five: From London to the Scottish Borders via Newcastle to introduce Count von Keyserling to British industry in 1842.Chapter Six: From St.Petersburg to Ekaterinburg across the Urals, across the Don and back through Krakow searching for coal and minesites to support the TransSiberian and Russian State Railways.

ISBN 978-1-933146-59-1 / 193314659-1


Ted Hughes’ Art of HealingInto Time and Other People

Daniel Xerri

The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry yet until now there has been no monograph on Hughes’ conception of poetry as a healing device. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes’ poetic works and evaluates the poet’s notion of its significance for human civilization. Research includes Hughes and the immediate post-war generation of poets in Britain and Ireland, The Movement poets and Hughes’ relations with them, Hughes as a cultural critic who perceives himself and his poetic talent as possessing redemptive function.




Five chapters are devoted to Hughes’ published works starting with Hawk in the Rain and Lupercal ; the collections are discussed focusing on violence as a manifestation of energy lacking in human affairs. Cave Birds is analyzed in terms of the poet’s adoption of alchemical motifs as a means of showing the quester’s journey to redemption. Moortown is made up of four parts and the healing cycle present in each of those parts is adumbrated along with analysis of arcana, use of symbolism and literary allusions. River is discussed with a view to clarifying Hughes’ interest in light, healing and the redemptive elements of the end of the quest. Xerri also discusses Hughes as a skeptic and as a poet willing to explore the healing quest itself with an eye on spiritual discipline in the face of existential voids.

ISBN 978-1-933146-78-2 / 1933146-78-8


The Unobtrusive Miss HawkerThe Life and Works of “Lanoe Falconer”, Late Victorian Novelist and Short Story Writer, 1848–1908

Peter Rowland

Lanoe Falconer (nom de plume of Mary Elizabeth Hawker) was one of England’s most accomplished young writers in the 1890s; her novel Mademoiselle Ixe was a bestseller and an international hit. Her short stories and novels were compared favorably to Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell among others. Her promising career was cut short by chronic illness. Peter Rowland began his research by discovering a large mass of Falconer’s unpublished material including personal documents. He took this trove as a starting point to reconstruct and review Falconer’s work after almost a century of neglect. Falconer left a small enduring body of work and the author has included several of her short stories in this study to introduce researchers and other readers to the literary quality, power and scope of “the unobtrusive Miss Hawker”.

ISBN 978-1-933146-63-8 / 1933146-63-X


Voting in American ElectionsThe Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788

Walter Dean Burnham with Thomas Ferguson and Louis Ferleger

Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the collection and publication of historical American election statistics and his many essays and books on them are read around the world. His compilation of voting statistics for the famous 1975 Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 was a landmark in the field. It presented the first reasonably complete data series on voting turnout in presidential elections,

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as well as the partisan split and other details of other, mostly federal, elections. But it was by no means complete, even for national elections. Returns from many areas, especially in the South and for much of the U.S. before 1824, were not included. Nor were there reliable turnout data for elections below the presidential level.

Now, at last, his new work fills the gigantic holes at the heart of American history. Based on his own research into many local archives across the United States as well as state censuses from the 19th century, Burnham presents a complete series of presidential voting returns by state, together with state level data for governors and Congressional representatives. The series includes not only partisan splits, but turnouts, which makes this the first complete record of voting turnout in US federal elections ever published. Burnham also presents his estimates of the voting population for each state, which scholars have long awaited. He also includes a number of other series of great interest, including results for primaries in the South after the Civil War. These were the “real” elections, but the data have been unavailable until now.

Illustrations: 60 pages Statistical and informational armature: tables and graphs.

ISBN 978-1-93314669-0 / 1933146-69-9


Walter Benjamin’s TransitA Destructive Tour of Modernism

Stephanie Polsky

Walter Benjamin’s Transit is a work in two halves. The first, part 1, entitled “Mapping Desire: Towards a Minor Fascism” applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophy to the critical writings of to the critical writings of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid an atmosphere of emergent fascism in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents something radically different from other critical approaches to Walter Benjamin’s body of work. It is an attempt to act with Benjamin to devise a new set of philosophical and political coordinates viable for a current rethinking of fascism.

This work is critically situated at the margins of Benjamin’s philosophy in its attempt to extend the parameters of thinking that Benjamin left for us. Throughout this volume, the critical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari will lend crucial insight into Benjamin’s analysis of fascism, based on their pivotal understanding of it, which considers not only historical fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, but also the fascism that is part of our everyday behaviour, causing us to gravitate towards the very same powers that dominate and exploit us. The reality of that fascism, even its historical guise, connotes an invisible, perpetual war that cannot be definitively lost nor won, but rather must be engaged as an ethical combat within oneself on a plane where politics equates itself with everyday life.




This insight has particular resonance given that Benjamin, a German Jew, was himself under constant threat of historical erasure during the course of his lifetime. Benjamin’s circumstance makes his very person the embodiment of a certain constellation of fascist forces. It is from within that constellation of forces that the true problem of how to locate fascism becomes proximate to a life, on this occasion Walter Benjamin’s life and body in particular. A life, moreover, that sought not to be non-fascist per se, but rather to become fascism’s greatest ethical observer, so as to raise alarm bells within its most extravagant perpetrator, the average citizen. Benjamin was dedicated to a methodology that sought to demonstrate and not to judge the terms on which history rests. The task of this volume is to transport the reader over the difficult terrain of these terms to locations of particular behest to Benjamin’s view of fascism, so as to better evaluate contemporary critical debates about fascism.

ISBN 978-1-933146-73-7 / 1933146-73-7


Washington Irving and SpainThe Romantic Movement, The Re/Creation of Islamic Andalusia and the Critical Reception

Celia Wallhead

This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact of Washington Irving’s presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish topics by Spain’s critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and translators were and are active in assessing Irving’s literary style, scholarly grasp and cultural influence. This work seeks to examine Irving’s influence and his “discovery” of Islamic Al-Andalus (Irving was the first American to seriously study Mahomet (Muhammad),the Koran and write about his findings). Wallhead locates Irving’s literary and historical researches in the troubled, chaotic post-Napoleonic Spain of Ferdinand V11 and discusses the earliest Iberian reaction to Irving’s books.

Professor Wallhead’s study includes four parts:1.The legacy of Irving in today’s Spain: the bibliography, the cultural extension, the

“Washington Irving” industry, tourist and travel literature.2.Influences and sources: early-mid 19c Spain…Andalusia, Seville and the roots of the southern “romance”.3.His Spanish writings. Fiction (Tales of the Alhambra), Documentary and biographical studies: The Conquest of Granada, Mahomet, and Christopher Columbus.4.Conclusions.

ISBN 978-1-933146-49-2 / 1933146-49-4



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IR ISH RESE ARCH SERIES, NO.57

Becoming Gauchos IngelesesDiasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature

Edmundo Murray

This monograph fills a large gap in the literary and cultural history of the Irish diaspora—The Argentine Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2000 there has been a growing research interest in the Irish in Latin America and the Caribbean. This work is the only modern research by a skilled scholar on the topic of the literature of the Irish Argentine. The work has ground breaking material on specific authors, their economic and their demographic milieu as well as assessments on Irish allied cultural activities (journalism, politics and music).

Contents include:- Introduction- Nineteenth-century Emigration to Argentina- Irish-Argentine Literature- Autobiography: Edward Robbins, John Brabazon and J.Macnie- Fiction: Katherine Nevin and William Bulfin- Becoming Irish – Argentine- Chronology

ISBN 978-1-933146-67-6 / 1933146-67-2


IRISH RESE ARCH SERIES, NO.56

Clearing the Tangled WoodPoetry as a Way of Seeing the World

James Lawless

Lawless argues that poetry is capable of addressing the irrational aspect of people’s lives by drawing on its different grammar and anarchic qualities, and so affords readers deeper insights into reality. He offers suggestions on how to achieve the heightened state of consciousness required of man to enter the world of poetry. Other topics include the process of creativity itself, the influences of other disciplines and texts, and the evolution of poetry from oral to written form. Extracts from works of various contemporary poets serve as examples. With a commendatory preface by Declan Kilberd.

ISBN 978-1-933146-60-7 / 193314660-5






Homophobic Bullying in Irish Secondary Education

James O’Higgins-Norman

This research monograph is an exploration of the experiences of students, parents and teachers regarding sexuality and homophobic bullying in National (i.e. public) as well as private secondary institutions. The work discusses settings that run the gamut of tough inner city schools to historical entities with distinguished graduates and first rate instruction and provides solid research statistics as well as an historical overview of pedagogies that have been heavily influenced by religious and sectarian agendas. Gender based schools and co-ed facilities are also contrasted in relation to bullying and efforts to suppress and re direct class and playground behaviors. European Union approaches to this problem also discussed. A robust bibliography and index are included.

“I cannot emphasise enough the importance of Dr. O’Higgins-Norman’s work on homophobic bullying in Irish schools. While significant empirical studies of this nature have emerged in Britain, nothing on this scale or level of complexity has come out of Ireland to date. This work represents a huge contribution to scholarly work in the field of education studies, and has secured an important foothold for research into gender and sexuality within the area of sociology of education in Ireland.” Dr. Debbie Ging, School of Communications, Dublin City University

ISBN 978-1-933146-45-4 / 193314645-1



Irish American Folklore in New England

E. Moore Quinn

Millions of Irish came to America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Quinn, (Ph.D., Harvard) an anthropologist and folklorist at College of Charleston, wondered how much traditional Irish folklore and customs remained in the second and third generations of Irish in America. To find out, she interviewed a number of people of Irish ancestry in New England.

She begins with the Irish language, long suppressed by the British in Ireland, but a first language for many of the immigrants. The use made by children of immigrants of unknown Irish words is treated throughout the book, becoming a metaphor for the acculturation process.

Quinn discusses Irish work in America and ways in which Irish identity was preserved, through food, sayings, religion, memories and music. She notes how some customs altered or were dropped. For instance, the hero tales that were the source of Irish storytelling were abandoned in favor of stories about immigrant triumph over adversity. Quinn expects her work to be used as a textbook but her lively writing style makes this book accessible to anyone interested in the Irish in

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America or those who always wanted to know just what their grandparents were calling them in Gaelic.

ISBN 978-1-930901-82-7 / 193090182-8



The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West

Marguerite Quintelli-Neary

This is the first research monograph to study the interstices between native Irish folklore and the emerging myth of the American West during the last frontier period (1860–1890). It begins by tracing the role of Irish pioneers and their contributions to the westward migration and then examines the many parallel developments between the myths of Ireland and those that would come to define the American West. Dr Quintelli-Neary, for instance, discusses the adoption of traditional Irish music for Custer’s 7th Cavalry (“the Garry Owen”) as well as for the Texas Rangers; this not only reaffirms the presence of the Irish but validates an incorporation of their culture in a blending western population.

By examining the trends of American western mythology through the exploits of four major icons who are Irish by origin, association or appropriation, the author demonstrates how their adventures serve to enrich a mythology that Americanizes them, while retaining such traditional Celtic features as a cattle raid, the elopement and pursuit motif, the formation of vigilance groups and the establishment of non traditional roles for female heroes. A study of the historical lives of Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr and Jesse James as filtered through the generous imaginings of pseudo biographers, journalists, and pulp fiction writers, demonstrates how little factual history is retained in the American consciousness while the mythology is strengthened and enlarged by images perpetuated through fiction and film.

ISBN 978-1-933146-1 / 193314646-X

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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and the Politics of Style

Julie Donovan

Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes an important yet relatively neglected author by analyzing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis since Owenson was an actor’s daughter and grew up in the company of traveling performers. The study includes an extensive discussion of Morgan’s personal papers and artifacts housed in the national Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. No previous study has fully considered this crucial archival material and its implications.

Unpublished and hitherto unconsulted papers from the Yale University collection are also part of this original research monograph. Owenson’s writing is far ranging (she is known both as a polemicist and the author of works on post restoration Italy as well as Ireland) and she commanded the friendship and respect of many early 19th c. authors and poets including Byron, Shelley, Moore among many others.

ISBN 9781933146559 / 978193314655-3



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The Law of American Basketball

Lewis Kurlantzick, Editor and Contributor

The volume will be the second in an ongoing project on the legal regulation of athletics. It will consist of a set of essays on a variety of legal issues facing professional basketball. The contributors are a distinguished group of academics and practitioners who have long focused their intellectual efforts on the legal governance of professional and amateur athletics. This is a much needed addition to the law literature both in the United States as well as internationally.

Basketball now rivals soccer in worldwide popularity. Accordingly, one chapter will attend to the international dimension of the sport. A principal focus will be the present restrictions on the free flow of labor and capital. Thus, leagues abroad commonly place a limit on the number of foreign players (i.e., Americans) who can be on a team roster. Comparable limitations are placed on foreign ownership of teams. In addition, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has an agreement with FIBA, the international governing body for basketball, that regulates movement of players across continents. The legality of these arrangements will be evaluated. While attention will be paid to the law of the European Union, the principal assessment will be under United States antitrust law. That assessment also raises the important issue of the reach of American law with respect to international transactions.

Here are some of the legal issues discussed: The globalization of the sport has been aided by the development of the internet, which has affected the manner in which games and information about games are disseminated. Employer-employee relations, and in particular disciplinary arrangements, have a distinctive cast in the NBA as compared with more conventional industries. The location and relocation of franchises are matters of central importance for teams, league, and municipalities. The league’s ability to artificially limit the number of franchises below the market-clearing number provides teams with major leverage over communities anxious to keep or acquire a professional franchise. Among the four major sports in the United States basketball alone supports a professional women’s league. A chapter will examine the history, organizational structure, and distinctive problems of the WNBA. This chapter may provide a vehicle for exploration of societally related gender and discrimination issues as well.

ISBN 978-1-933146-75-1 / 1933146-75-3


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