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War and Death in the Music of George Crumb
This book studies George Crumb’s The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb’s output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of the Civil War and the Vietnam War. The Winds of Destiny is shown to be a critical commentary on the legacy of American wars and militarism, both concepts crucial to American identity. The Winds of Destiny also acts as an ironic war memorial as a means of critiquing such concepts. Black Angels has long been associated with the Vietnam War. This book shows how this associatio...
The Constitution and 9/11
"The Constitution and 9/11 provides a comprehensive, striking, and disturbing analysis of executive misuse of power that is made all the more compelling by placing it in a rich and fascinating historical contest. No better book is available for placing post-9/11 government actions in the matrix of history and explaining how executive power has degraded the Constitution and citizen rights."--William G. Weaver--Back cover.
Paper Knowledge
Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document.
In the Name of National Security
"In light of the Bush administration's continued use of Reynolds to justify its post-9/11 claims to unilateral authority, Fisher's work could not be more timely."--BOOK JACKET.
Social Register
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Social Register, New York
Includes "Dilatory domiciles."
Ethics, Accountability, and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World
This series provides a body of core texts relating to the twin fields of records management and archives. Each volume offers a a detailed and professionally written overview of one or more topics within these fields.
Censorship
Editor Kate Burns has compiled compelling essays and counter essays that survey the history of censorship. Readers will look at how the arguments have both changed and remained constant over time, and will be fascinated by the way moral questions remain fundamentally consistent. This volume contains a wide range of primary documents and essays by historians and modern scholars, which add background and insight.
