Book Description
Was the American Cowboy gay? Judging from the earliest representations of cowboys and other frontier figures in popular literature—who typically preferred a "buddy" over a wife—the answer seems to be yes. Evidence from books by nineteenth-century Western writers (from legends such as James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Owen Wister, to more obscure novelists and diarists) shows how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before the word "homosexual" and its synonyms were invented. American writers celebrated erotic frontier friendships as alternatives to the lawless violence that characterized stories about the early settlers’ fabled lives. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indians,and vaqueros defined themselves by excluding femininity and the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Roosevelt called "strenuous living" with other bachelors in the relative"purity" of wilderness conditions. Queer Cowboys recovers this forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in fiction, photographs, illustrations, song lyrics, historicalephemera, and theatrical performances.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Decoding the Encrypted Erotics of Nineteenth-Century Westerns * Intersections of Race and Homosexuality in the Wilderness * Scandal in the Boom Towns: Print Cultures and Sexual Prohibitions * Cowboy Poses: The Queer Eye in Early Photographs * Singing from the Saddle: The "Wild" West Goes Vaudeville * Conclusion
Author Biography
Chris Packard teaches literature and writing at New York University and New School University. His essays have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Common-Place, and Concerns; his fiction and poetry have appeared in literary quarterlies, exhibitions, and the popular press.
ISBN: 0-312-29340-2
Binding: hardback
Publishing: April, 2005
Pages: 160
Availability: Not Yet Published
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
List Price: $55.00
Reviews
"Walter Stahr has not only given us a meticulous study of the life of John Jay, but one very much written in the spirit of the man. It is thorough, fair, and consistently intelligent and presented with the most scrupulous accuracy." --Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton
"John Jay was a brilliant and fascinating statesman who, along with his friend Benjamin Franklin, helped define the values of American diplomacy. Walter Stahr writes with great insight, and this wonderful book should help restore Jay's place in the pantheon of our great Founding Fathers." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
"John Jay, the Founding Father most ignored by historians, has long awaited a good biography. Here it is! Jay played salient roles in many crucial aspects of the founding of the nation. He served in the Continental Congress, held diplomatic posts, played a vital role in the ratification of the Constitution, sat on the Supreme Court, and was governor of New York during the intensely partisan 1790s. Now, at last, a fine biography of this exceptional man is available. Walter Stahr has written a sensitive, illuminating, and provocative life history of Jay that will be welcomed by all who are interested in the American Revolution and the establishment of the Republic."--John Ferling, author of A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic and Adams Verses Jefferson: The Election of 1800
"The Federalists built the foundation of our modern American government, and no Federalist
leader better exemplifies their vision for a soon-to-be vast and great nation than John Jay.
Co-author of the Federalist Papers, President of the Continental Congress, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, Chief Justice, Governor: this towering figure of the legislative, executive,
and judicial branches made an amazing and indelible imprint on a nation destined to become the world's sole superpower. Walter Stahr's engrossing biography captures as no other book the complex character and profound thought of this influential American Founder, in the process helping us understand how a 55-year-old Governor of New York could decide to retire permanently from public life -- by rejecting the President's nomination, and the Senate's vote of ratification, that would have made him once again Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court." -- U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox (CA), Chairman, House Policy Committee
"For twenty five years, John Jay served his country as congressman, diplomat, chief justice, governor and polemicist, yet managed to retire beloved by everyone. Walter Stahr adds his portrait to the gallery of America's founders." --Richard Brookhiser, author of Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
"The greatest founders--such as Washington and Jefferson--have kept even the greatest of the second tier of the nation's founding generation in the shadows. But now John Jay (1745--1829), arguably the most important of this second group, has found an admiring, skilled student in Stahr, an international lawyer in Washington. D.C. Since the last biography of Jay appeared 60 years ago, a mountain of new knowledge about the early nation has piled up, and Stahr uses it all with confidence and critical detachment. Jay had a remarkable career. He was president of the Continental Congress, secretary of foreign affairs, a negotiator of the treaty that won the United States its independence in 1783, one of three authors of The Federalist Papers , first chief justice of the Supreme Court and governor of his native New York. Very few men exceeded Jay in importance and influence. Yet he presents a problem for any biographer: he was a conservative man of unfailingly sober disposition who left his mark more in significant deeds than in memorable words and commanding decisions. Stahr, however, captures both his subject's seriousness and his thoughtful, affectionate side as son, husband, father and friend. In humanizing Jay, Stahr makes him an appealing figure accessible to a large readership and places Jay once again in the company of America's greatest statesmen, where he unquestionably belongs." --Publishers Weekly
Book Description
The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as well as President of the Continental Congress, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and one time Governor of New York, John Jay was a Founding Father of paramount importance to the early Republic and did much to influence the shape of America's future. Walter Stahr's lively and engaging narrative illuminates the great life of an American soldier, politician, diplomat and lawyer. Readers will follow Jay's story through key events in early American history, such as the Revolutionary War, the writing of the Constitution, the first presidencies of the country, and the creation of our most authoritative legal body, the US Supreme Court. Now, Stahr presents Jay in the light he deserves: a Founding Father, a true national hero, and an architect of America's future.
Table of Contents
New York * The Law * Resistance Leader * Revolutionary Leader * President of the Continental Congress * Minister to Spain * Peace Commissioner * American in Paris * Secretary for Foreign Affairs * Home and Society * Federalist * First Chief Justice * Envoy to England * Governor of New York * Retirement * Conclusions
Author Biography
Walter Stahr is an international lawyer for Emerging Markets Partnership in Washington, DC. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.
ISBN:
1-4039-6115-8
Binding: hardback
Publishing: December, 2004
Pages: 272
Main Description:
Colonial Transformations covers early modern English poetry and plays, Gaelic
poetry, and a wide range of English colonial propaganda. In the book, Bach contends
that England’s colonial ambitions surface in all of its literary texts.
Those texts played multiple roles in England’s colonial expansions and
emerging imperialism. Those roles included publicizing colonial efforts, defining
some people as white and some as barbarians, constituting enduring stereotypes
of native people, and resisting official versions of colonial encounters.
Contents:
Colonial Poetics in Spenser’s Amoretti
Bermuda’s Ireland
The Atlantic World Transformed on the London Stage
Colonial Transformations in Court and City Entertainments
“A Virginia Maske
Epilogue
Author Biography:
Rebecca Ann Bach is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham.
ISBN: 0-312-23099-0
Binding: Hardback
Published: January, 2001
Pages: 304
List Price: $55.00
Main Description:
Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1492-1789, comprises a set of lively,
diverse, and original investigations into contemporary notions of race in the
oceanic interculture of the Atlantic during the early modern period. Working
across institutional boundaries of “American” and “British”
literature in this period, as well as between “history” and “literature,”
ten essays address the ways in which cultural categories of “race”—brown,
red, and white, African-American and Afro-Caribbean, Spanish and Jewish, English
and Celtic, native American and northern European, creole and mestizo—were
constructed and adapted by early modern writers.
Contents:
Introduction--Gary Taylor and Philip Beidler
A Mirror Across the Water; Mimetic Racism and Cultural Survival--Barbara Fuchs
Angells in America--Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples--Gordon
Sayre
"Extravagant Viciousness": Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas
Tryon--Kim Hall
Fresh Produce--Joseph Roach
Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy
of Racism--Benjamin Braude
Errour’s Children: Milk, Blood, and "Race" in Late Sixteenth-Century
Ireland--David Baker
Othello, Passion, and Race--Mary Floyd-Wilson
"Working Like a Dog": African Labor and Racking: The Human-Animal
Divide in Early Modern England--Francesca Royster
Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan and Other Famous Early American Mahometans--Philip
Beidler
Author Biography:
Philip Beidler is Professor of English at the University of Alabama.
Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies
at the University of Alabama.
Series: Signs of Race
ISBN: 0-312-29597-9
Binding: Paperback
Publishing in: April, 2004
Availability: Not Yet Published
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
List Price: $22.95
This title is also available in Hardcover 0-312-29596-0 for $69.95
Main Description:
The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 gathers an international team of historians
to present the first comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories
of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective:
the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics,
and slavery. Together, the essays will be a primary resource for students and
teachers and a stimulus to researchers in British, American, imperial, and Atlantic
history more generally.
Contents:
Preface--B. Bailyn
Introduction--D. Armitage & M.J. Braddick
Part I: Frameworks
Three Concepts of Atlantic History--D. Armitage
Part II: Connections Migration--A. Games
Economy--N. Zahedieh
Religion--C.G. Pestana
Part III: Identities Civility and Authority--M.J. Braddick
Gender--S.M.S. Pearsall
Class--K. Wrightson
Race--J.E. Chaplin
Part IV: Politics State and Empire--E. Mancke
Revolution and CounterRevolution--E.H. Gould
The Politics of Slavery--C.L. Brown
Afterword: Atlantic History: A Circumnavigation--J.H. Elliott
Author Biography:
David Armitage is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.
Michael J. Braddick is in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield.
ISBN: 0-333-96341-5
Binding: Paperback
Published: November, 2002
Pages: 352
Availability: In Stock
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
List Price: $21.95
This title is also available in Hardcover 0-333-96340-7 for $65.00