History

Ella Young and Her World: Celtic Mythology, The Irish Revival and The Californian Avant-Garde

Author: 

McDowell, Dorothea

Credentials: 

UCD, Womens Studies

Ella Young (1867-1956) the Irish poet, Celtic mythologist and author presents a number of problems to any researcher—she not only lived an Irish life of almost 60 years but she went on to have a dramatically different life in California that lasted over 30 years until her death. She also managed to write an autobiography that labeled her in many eyes as a Bohemian free spirit and not a a scholar with a vast knowledge of Irish myth and Celtic lore.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Celtic Mythology/Interpretation, Irish Language, Folkways/Cultural anthropology, W.B.Yeats, Irish Free State/ culture and language policies, Irish Catholicism and Robinson Jeffers,Alan Watts and Counter-culture in California, CelticFolklore
Release Date: 
December 10th, 2014
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-91-2
Price: 
$85.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
906
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

Maunsel & Co., Publishers (Dublin)
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Memory and Mythology: Modern War and the Construction of Historical Memory , 1775 - 2000

Author: 

Starostina, Natalia; Editor

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History, Young Harris College

The volume provides a rare opportunity to launch a dialogue among historians working on the theme by examining different societies and chronological periods. It is often a case that the studies of the construction of memory of wars are geographically bound to specific countries. Such a focus narrows a historical inquiry to the experience of a single nation or a region and hinders a dialogue among historians.

Market: 
War/Warfare/Military History; War and Memory; Modern Europe and War 1775 - 2000, Occupation (France); World War 1, World War II, Turkish-Russian Conflicts, Soviet War Memory, Japan at war, American Civil War, Military Nostalgia, Memorials, War and Holocaust as theatre and as personal drama.
Release Date: 
July 14th, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-67-7
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research

Author: 

Fogel, Dr. Curtis (with Andrea Quinlan,York University and Dr Elizabeth Quinlan, D/Sociology, University of Saskatchewan)

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds (author: D/Interdisciplinary Studies, Lakehead University, Canada)

Academic disciplines have remained largely committed to research methods and methodologies that hinge on simplistic binaries and problematic dichotomies. Despite this historical and contemporary trend in interdisciplinary research, there have been some notable advances in innovative approaches to method and methodology. With the recent growth in these advances, there is an increasing need for texts that document contemporary, innovative approaches to research.

Market: 
Research Methods ,Sociology, Psychology, Nursing, Health Studies, Criminology, Interdisciplinary Studies, History, Political Science, Gender Studies and Anthropology
Release Date: 
September 15th , 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320- 43-1
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
182
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Arms Makers of Massachusetts, 1610 - 1900

Author: 

Whisker, James B. and Spiker, Kevin

Credentials: 

Ph. Ds, History; Dr. Whisker is emeritus professor of history West Virginia University, Dr Spiker is a professor of history at Ohio University

This study is a major reference work dealing in a thorough and complete fashion with every known gunsmith, inventor and manufacturer of firearms in Massachusetts from the earliest colonial smith to the industrial entities that flourished in Massachusetts and New England by the 1900s. Original sources including but not limited to ,town,county and local histories, Commonwealth and National Archives, directories, memoirs, U.S.Patent office materials and military procurement memoranda have been utilized to create a complete biographical record.

Market: 
REFERENCE, New England history 1610 – 1900, arms and arms makers, Industrial development in New England, Massachusetts Industrial, Cultural and Social history ,American weaponry
Release Date: 
February 5th, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-56-1
Price: 
$124.00
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
294
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Racism and The Baptist Bible Fellowship: Segregation, Anti-Communism and Religious Fundamentalism in the American South 1950-1965

Author: 

Lavoie, The Reverend Jeffrey D.

Credentials: 

LL.D, Ph D[History] Exeter University

This research work for the first time discusses the Baptist Bible Fellowship and its connections with segregation during the 1950sand beyond. It includes an examination of some of its key founders and their views of segregation and observes some of the crucial figures who fought for racial equality and integration within this organization. Though many of the founders of this Baptist denomination were segregationists (which could be considered racist in and of itself) some of these individuals held blatant racist views of white supremacy.

Market: 
American Religious history, 20th century, Baptist Church history, Segregation and White Supremacy, Racism in America, Civil Rights History, Southern Regional history 1945-1965, the Black Baptists, Martin Luther King, Anti Communism in American domestic politics
Release Date: 
10/19/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-50-9
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
304
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Twenty-first Century Ireland: A View From America

Author: 

McCarthy, John P.

Credentials: 

Ph.D,Columbia University, History; Professor emeritus at Fordham University(NY), former Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Fordham University 1997- 2004; Member, Executive Council of the American Irish Historical Society, Commentator on Irish Issues: PBS, BBC, CBC, RTE and CNN. An OBE (2006) was awarded to Dr. McCarthy for his efforts in the Northern Irish Peace Process. Author of IRELAND: A REFERENCE GUIDE(2006), Contributor, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF IRELAND (2009)

This work, a summation of a lifetime of research and personal involvement with all things Irish and Irish-American, has several unusual strengths. For one, it neatly meshes both contemporary Irish and Irish-American concerns and issues over Ireland's future and her immediate past.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Modern Irish History, Politics in Ireland 1992-2012, Irish-American Studies, Church and State in Ireland, Ulster/Northern Ireland
Release Date: 
06/15/2012
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-936320-49-3
Price: 
$39.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Caribbean Liberators: Bold and Black Personalities and Organizations 1900-1989

Author: 

Teelucksingh, Jerome

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad

This ambitious research monograph discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements) in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid to the Pan-African Movement and its linking of Black Africa and the diasporic Black world of the British West Indies.

Market: 
Modern Caribbean History, Afro-Caribbean organizations, Independence movements in Anglophone Caribbean, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Labor Movements, Liberation Movements 20th c, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados
Release Date: 
03/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-35-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Understanding Contemporary Capitalism: A Marxist Historical / Materialist Interpretation

Author: 

Mentan, Tatah

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Wisconsin; author of The Recolonization of Africa (Bethesda, 2011)

Is capitalism coming to an end in a manner somewhat similar to communism in the USSR? Events certainly bode ill for the classic view that capitalism will prevail as the greatest source of economic growth and stability. Dr. Mentan maintains that the study of contemporary capitalism must entail both the interrogation of the capitalist mode of production as an abstract-formal object and investigation of the diverse historical forms that capitalism has taken across time and space.

Market: 
Marxist Studies: Marxism, 20th century; historical materialism, Capitalism, neo liberal economics, Economics and the State, African Socialism, Karl Marx
Release Date: 
1/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-37-0
Price: 
$42.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Sacred Dance of the Irish Circus: Rural Ireland and Traveling Shows and Showpeople, 1922-1972

Author: 

O'hAodha, Michael

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History, University of Limerick

A visual history of the Traveling circuses and shows that traveled the roads of Ireland between the 1920s and the arrival of television in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Cultural and Performance Studies ,20th century Ireland, Irish History, Connaught,20th century.,Gaeltacht
Release Date: 
04/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-34-9
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

American Historians in War and Peace: Patriotism, Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919

Author: 

Nielson, Jonathan M.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of California, Santa Barbara; D/History University of Alaska

In this study of the American historians who accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Professor Nielson focuses on a development unique in its time (and now taken for granted): for the first time a president used the expertise of professional scholars as the basis for far reaching decisions on the immediate issues of war and peace and European reconstruction as well as reconciliation.

Market: 
Historiography, American foreign policy 1917-1919, Woodrow Wilson, American war aims 1918-1919, World War One, Intellectual History, the Department of State foreign policy implementation, League of Nations, Propaganda, American diplomacy/diplomats 1918-1919
Release Date: 
11/05/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-14-1 / 193632014-2
Price: 
$86.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
464
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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