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  • Thy Will Be Done

    George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

    by John Garrison Marks ...
    How should we remember George Washington’s entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington’s ties to slavery have vexed us. He enslaved more people than any of his fellow founders, yet he was the only one of them to emancipate the people he held in bondage. Since his death, Americans have grappled with this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Glass

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kozy Krampus

    Cozy Cosmic Horror, #3

    by Sara Wilson, Martha Hipley, Em Starr, Ryan Van Ells, Margo Pecha, Devan Barlow, L. E. Daniels, Chris J. Karr, Sydney Sylvester, Edward St. Boniface, Peter Damien, Megan Lee Beals, Lauren Taylor Bak, John Klima, Colleen Anderson, KB Willson, EB Helvig, Tobby Hagler, Jack Stein, Bethany Browning, J. Rohr, Elad Haber, Chris Baker, John Tures, Erik Grove, Brian U. Garrison, Nat Reiher, Kevin Wetmore ...
    Series Book 3 - Cozy Cosmic Horror
    We arrive yet again at the end of it all: the dreaded holiday season, where everything is too bright, nothing is where it should be, and you will be constantly hounded by the persistent dread of having forgotten something very important. And traffic will be totally and utterly f*cked all the way to the mall. We are doomed.But there may still be some spark in these fading minutes before the heat ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by John S. Garrison ...
    The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global and Digital Governance Crossroads

    Stakeholder Engagement and Democratization

    Edited by Preeti Shroff-Mehta, Jagdish.N Sheth, John Garrison, Shailendra Raj Mehta ...
    This handbook maps and analyzes cross-sector (public–corporate–social–community–faith) governance theories, models, and practices as they are evolving in a digital world. It studies human, cultural, societal, institutional interactions and challenges in a digitally enabled world, especially in the context of post-crisis resilience and agility. Every global crisis forces societies and nations to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Shakespeare and the Afterlife

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Making Milton

    Print, Authorship, Afterlives

    Edited by Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, Marissa Nicosia ...
    This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and intellectual movements, as well as how his works have been positioned since their first publication. The individual chapters assess Milton ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic, John Garrison ...
    Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery

    Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

    by John Garrison Marks ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority—and linked ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications

    Edited by Robert Osiander, M. Ann Garrison Darrin, John L. Champion ...
    The promise of MEMS for aerospace applications has been germinating for years, and current advances bring the field to the very cusp of fruition. Reliability is chief among the challenges limiting the deployment of MEMS technologies in space, as the requirement of zero failure during the mission is quite stringent for this burgeoning field. MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications ... Read more

    $325.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England

    Literature and the Erotics of Recollection

    Edited by John S. Garrison, Kyle Pivetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How ... Read more

    $64.99 USD