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The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

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2. HESTER BLUM ... royal ship, rather than his original continental one. In an attempt to assimilate to the man-of-war's crew, Israel calls himself “Peter Perkins,” maintopman, and jumps from mess (a 22 Melville and Oceanic Studies Hester Blum.
The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and ...

The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and ...

Hester Blum

Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives Hester Blum. Ljungquist, Kent. ''Putnam's Monthly Magazine.'' In American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Edward E. Chielens, 328– 33.
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to ...

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to ...

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Ginn & Co.; lzMaró4; A723712. BLUM, B. ALQUIT-., pseud. See BLUM, ELIEZER. BLUM, DANIEL, See DANIEL BLUM'S THEATRE WORLD. BLUM, ELIEZER. Lider. Poems. By Eliezer Blum (B. Alquit-Blum) New York, Cyco. 99 p. In Yiddish.
A Companion to Herman Melville

A Companion to Herman Melville

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... the Universal Republicans of Cloots's vision serves to elevate them to participatory citizenship, a status not automatically associated with working seamen until the American reform movements 114 Hester Blum of the mid- nineteenth century ...
The Cambridge History of the American Novel

The Cambridge History of the American Novel

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Hester Blum's emphasis in this volume on the fluid nature of Melville's use of the sea narrative, allowing for metaphysical and cultural as well as geographical explorations, identifies an important aspect of Melville's struggles with “issues such ...
An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the ...

An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the ...

Siobhan Carroll

Miranda Burgess, Ian Duncan, Janet Sorensen, Sam Baker, Hester Blum, and Elisa Beshero-Bondar all offered much-needed words of wisdom, for which I am very grateful. Special thanks, of course, go to Jerry Singerman and my two ...
True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American ...

True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American ...

Dane A. Morrison

One certainly can make thecase that other merchants and mariners, such as Samuel Shaw or WilliamC. Hunter, participated in the China Trade as historians and museum scholars have constructed it, based in China and India. Hester Blum ...
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life

Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life

Judith Chazin-Bennahum

Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, but also illustrates the central role Blum played in the development of dance in the United States.
The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

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10 See Hester Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton, NJ: Princeton  ...
Adjudication in Action: An Ethnomethodology of Law, Morality ...

Adjudication in Action: An Ethnomethodology of Law, Morality ...

Baudouin Dupret

Hester, Stephen and Peter Eglin (1992) A Sociology of Crime. London and New York: Routledge. Hester, Stephen and Peter Eglin (1997a) “Membership Categorization Analysis: An Introduction” in Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin (eds. ) ...
Poetry & Geography: Space and Place in Post-war Poetry

Poetry & Geography: Space and Place in Post-war Poetry

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7 William Boelhower, cited in Hester Blum, 'The Prospect of Oceanic Studies', PMLA, 125/3 (2010), p.670. 8 Philip E. Steinberg, The Social Construction of the Ocean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p.162. 9 For instance ...
Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant ...

Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant ...

Susan A. Glenn

For fictional insights into this work culture see Eliezer Blum-Alquit, "In the Light of Morris Rosenfeld," in Blum-Alquit, The Revolt of the Apprentice and Other Stories, trans. Etta Blum (South Brunswick, N.J., 1969), p. 115. 17. "The Cloakmakers in ...
The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

Christopher Castiglia

... I offer my thanks to Jonathan Arac, Hester Blum, Amanda Claybaugh, Dave Coolin, Nan Da, Jonathan Elmer, Bert Emerson, Carrie Hyde, Eve Keller, Greg Laski, Dominic Mastroianni, Lloyd Pratt, Joseph Rezek, and Leonard Tennenhouse.
Godwink

Godwink

Bridgette Hester

Godwink: On the Wings of Butterflies is author Bridgette Hester’s story of her walk from grief to grace after the tragic and unexpected loss of her husband.
The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the ...

The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the ...

Moira Goff

My more personal thanks go to Evelyn Nallen and David Gordon, who have over several years played for my performances and discussed with me the music for Hester Santlow«s dances, to Maurice Packer, who has provided innumerable ...
Eat Complete: The 21 Nutrients That Fuel Brainpower, Boost ...

Eat Complete: The 21 Nutrients That Fuel Brainpower, Boost ...

Drew Ramsey, M.D.

I love this book!”—Susan Blum, MD, MPH, author of The Immune System Recovery Plan and founder of the Blum Center for Health
Horrors of Slavery: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli

Horrors of Slavery: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli

William Ray

Horrors of slavery, or, the American tars in Tripoli / William Ray ; edited and with an introduction by Hester Blum. p. cm. — (Subterranean lives) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8135-4412-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN ...
Léon Blum: La morale et le pouvoir

Léon Blum: La morale et le pouvoir

Frédéric Monier

Cette biographie de Léon Blum propose de faire la synthèse du parcours d'un homme qui incarne, entre Jaurès et Mitterrand, le socialisme français.
Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics

Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics

Joel Colton

In his political biography of Leon Blum, these two qualities are beautiully blended; none of the available evidence appears to have been over looked, and the enormous mass of variegated material has been transmuted in a polished, richly ...
The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne

The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne

Jamie Barlowe

To that end, she chronicles The Scarlet Letter's critical reception, analyzes the history of Hester Prynne as a cultural icon in literature and film, rereads the canonized criticism of the novel, and offers a new reading of Hawthorne's work ...
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

Pierre Birnbaum

A tireless champion for workers’ rights, Blum dramatically changed French society by establishing the forty-hour work week, paid holidays, and collective bargaining on wage claims.
By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas ...

By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas ...

Linda English

82 Mrs. Elizabeth Fulton Hester, wife of store owner George Benjamin Hester, responded to Beecher's call and moved to Indian Territory in 1856 to perform work as a teacher and a missionary in the Chickasaw Nation. Born in Georgia ...
Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

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Human Studies 35:563–581. doi:10.1007/s10746-012-9211-7 Hester, Stephen, and Peter Eglin (eds.). 1997a. Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Hester, Stephen, and ...
Godwink: On the Wings of Butterflies

Godwink: On the Wings of Butterflies

Bridgette Hester

Godwink: On the Wings of Butterflies is author Bridgette Hester's story of her walk from grief to grace after the tragic and unexpected loss of her husband.
Holstein-Friesian Herd-book, Containing a Record of All ...

Holstein-Friesian Herd-book, Containing a Record of All ...

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Adams Center, N.Y. Dad Boast Colantha Yankee 741370 DunmoTln Ormsby Ollle Punch 2768004 2872325 BESS BURKE FAYNE HESTER Aug. 17, 1946; Edward Gerber & Son, Apple River, Ш. Count Douglas De Kol 894688 Hester Fayne ...
Masterpieces of Women's Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Masterpieces of Women's Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Aline Bernstein

(41813-8) EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH FASHION PLATES IN FULL COLOR, Stella Blum (ed.). (24331-1) EVERYDAY FASHIONS OF THE THIRTIES AS PICTURED IN SEARS CATALOGS, Stella Blum (ed.). (25108-X) EVERYDAY  ...
Healing Arthritis: Your 3-Step Guide to Conquering Arthritis ...

Healing Arthritis: Your 3-Step Guide to Conquering Arthritis ...

Susan Blum

Now, in her groundbreaking new book, Dr. Susan Blum, a leading expert in functional medicine, offers a better approach to healing arthritis permanently.
The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai

The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai

Howard Blum

In this heart-pounding true story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling account of two modern-day adventurers—Larry Williams, a two-time Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana ...
Roadblocks to Equality: Women Challenging Boundaries

Roadblocks to Equality: Women Challenging Boundaries

Jeffery Klaehn

Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester, "Category, Predicate and Task: The Pragmatics of Practical Action [Review article on Lena jayyusi, Categorization and the Moral Orderl," Semiotica 88 (1992): 243-268. I I. Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin, ed., ...

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