Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history - from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016...
The Myth of the Holy Cow (D.N. Jha) - the origins of cow veneration and vegetarianism in India 5 December 2009 (407) Works Along the Way (Gisli Sigurdsson) - notable Icelandic architecture in concrete 3 December 2009 (266) *Angkor (Michael D. Coe) And the Khmer Civilization 2 De...
The Myth of Prisoners Reformation. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-5275-4183-2. Review by Simon Fulgoni A History of Women’s Prisons in England is a thought-provoking, authentic, and illuminating criminological deep dive into the historical ...
A review of Sustainability in the Global City, Myth and Practice, edited by Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh and Melissa Checker. 2015. ISBN: 9781107076280. Cambridge University Press, New York. 426 pages. As the introductory chapter states: “Sustainability is everywhere.” Indeed, what did we do...
Let me preface this - I am a working mother around the same age as some of the characters in this film. None of this rings true to me, mostly because of the way the script was written (by a couple of men who have clearly no idea what being a working mum is). The cast is great...
HIST071 History of Africa since 1850HIST083 Revolutionary America 1763-1815HIST092 Women in America to 1900HIST095 African American History to 1815HIST096 The African American Since 1865HIST102 Environment and CivilizationHIST103 CONSUMPTION POWERHIST105 History of Gender & Sexuality in the WestHIST113...
First Cow is fundamentally a western: It takes up questions of civilization, solidarity and barbarism on the American frontier. And like many great westerns it critiques some of the genre’s foundational myths with bracing, beautiful rigor, including the myth of heroic individualism. By A.O. Sco...
The really shocking thing about this million-dollar extravaganza is how regressive it is in its racial politics by comparison with the 1914 version. That film had an African American lead (the great Sam Lucas) but few if any other African American actors. Nevertheless its emphasis was fairly an...
Vyce Victus of Action For Everyone called CREED III “a fascinating snapshot of the African American male psyche in 2023,” and I get the sense that’s part of Jordan’s intent. I think he indicates it visually when he shows the red black and green stripes on the back of Adonis’s ...
Prior to Civil War, the southern slave power fundamentally directed the destiny of the American Republic, facilitated at least in part by an unfair advantage in representation baked into the Constitution with the “three-fifths clause” that counted the unenfranchised enslaved as fractional, fictional...