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The Cambridge History of America and the World

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The Cambridge History of America and the World

Volume 1: 1500–1820

The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe’s imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded.

Volume 2: 1820–1900

The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States.

Volume 3: 1900–1945

The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways.

Volume 4: 1945 to the Present

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world.

 

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Categories: American Studies, E-Books, History, Political Science

National Theatre Collection, Part 2 (Royal National Theatre in London)

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Northwestern University Libraries now has access to collection 2 of the National Theatre Collection (in addition to collection 1). Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the collection includes the following films.

Access at the publisher’s website or through NUsearch.    Part 2 titles are:

Turn of the Century Plays for Contemporary Audiences

Hedda Gabler: WhatsOnStage described this production, with Ruth Wilson in the title role, as ‘A Hedda unlike any I have ever seen. Devastating.’

Julie: Carrie Cracknell directs a cast including Vanessa Kirby and Eric Kofi Abrefa in this ‘superlative production’ (Time Out) set in contemporary London

The Seagull: Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. ‘Land-mark brilliant’, The Independent

Three Sisters: Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to a 1960s Nigeria on the brink of the Biafran Civil War, in this bold adaptation by Inua Ellams. ‘Brimming with Life. Enlightening and heart-breaking’ Broadway World

20th Century Classics

A View from the Bridge: Ivo van Hove directs this stunning production which The Times called ‘One of the great theatrical productions of the decade.’

All My Sons: From the Old Vic, Jeremy Herrin directs Sally Field and Bill Pullman in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama

Top Girls: Lyndsey Turner directs Caryl Churchill’s wildly innovative play about a country divided by its own ambitions

Contemporary Plays

After Life: If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be? Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda’s award-winning film

Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches: In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnected lives grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell

Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika: Prior, Joe, Belize, Louis, Harper and Roy continue their journeys through love, loss and loneliness to overcome abandonment and ultimately discover forgiveness

Barber Shop Chronicles: Directed by Olivier award-winning director Bijan Sheibani. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling

Chewing Gum Dreams: Written and performed by Michaela Coel, this award-winning, one-woman play recalls the last days of innocence before adulthood

Home: Nadia Fall’s vital verbatim play about people living on the margins of society features performances from Michaela Coel, Antonia Thomas and Kadiff Kirwan

Rockets and Blue Lights: Directed by Miranda Cromwell, this fiercely political play by Winsome Pinnock won the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award

This House: A timely, moving and funny insight into the workings of British politics. It’s 1974 and to a backdrop of infighting and backstabbing the political parties battle to change the future of the nation

Shakespeare and Greek Classics

Macbeth: Rufus Norris directs Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff in Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy

Paradise: Kae Tempest’s epic new take on Greek legend is directed by Ian Rickson and performed by an all-female company including Lesley Sharp as Philoctetes

Romeo and Juliet (2020): Starring Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor and filmed using the backstage spaces of the National Theatre during the Coronavirus pandemic

Musical Theatre

I Want My Hat Back: Based on Jon Klassen’s children’s picture book classic, this production will support courses in theatre for young audiences as well as musical theatre

The Threepenny Opera: Rory Kinnear is Mack the Knife in a new version of this landmark twentieth-century musical from the Olivier stage of the National Theatre

 

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Categories: Databases, Radio TV & Film, Theatre & Performance

Editor & Publisher DataBook

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Editor and Publisher Data Book

Editor & Publisher’s searchable online database, E&P DataBook or Industry DataBook contains data from thousands of U.S. and Canadian newspaper organizations. The database contains over 160 fields and is continually updated throughout the year. The deep data includes valuable contact information, mechanical specifications, equipment, rates, circulation and much more.

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Categories: Communication Studies, Databases, Journalism

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy (EIPE) publishes rigorous nonpartisan research on the effects of economic forces and public policy on entrepreneurship and innovation. EIPE provides a systematic and accessible research outlet that links the intellectual foundations and policy analyses on these topics in a way that’s useful to academic researchers and decision makers in the public and private sectors. – Publisher

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Categories: Business & Management, E-Journals, Economics

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Rhetoric Society Quarterly , the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, features original articles on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy. The journal addresses an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students of rhetorics who work in communication studies, English studies, philosophy, politics, and other allied fields. – Publisher

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Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies

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BATS: Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies

The Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS) is the leading venue for academic research addressing the social, cultural, and political issues facing transgender and gender minority communities across the globe. The journal offers a platinum open access forum for research of all theoretical and methodological approaches oriented toward the identification, analysis, and improvement of the material conditions of transgender life. – Publisher

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Modern Rheumatology and Modern Rheumatology Case Reports

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Modern Rheumatology

Modern Rheumatology is the official journal of the Japan College of Rheumatology (JCR) and publishes original papers in English on research pertinent to rheumatology and associated areas such as pathology, physiology, clinical immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, experimental animal models, pharmacology, and orthopedic surgery. – Publisher

Modern Rheumatology Case Reports

Modern Rheumatology Case Reports is an online-only journal dedicated to publishing original single and series case reports and letters in English on rheumatism, connective tissue diseases, musculoskeletal disorders including osteoporosis, orthopedic/spine surgery, rehabilitation and their associated areas such as pathology, physiology, immunology, microbiology and pharmacology. – Publisher

 

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26 New Streaming Videos from Docuseek

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New streaming documentary films from Docuseek.  Docuseek provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issues films.

Access available via NUsearch or the Docuseek2 website.

 

Maguy Marin: time to act / Naïa Productions et Compagnie Maguy Marin présentent en coproduction avec Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes cinéma un film de David Mambouch; écrit et réalisé par David Mambouch ; produit par Séverine Lathuillière et Philippe Aigle.

That spirit, that thing inside / producer, Bronwynne C. Evans; Intercollegiate College of Nursing, Washington State University College of Nursing.

Josep / Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée présentent; en coproduction déléguée avec Imagic Telecom; en coproduction avec Les Films du Poisson Rouge, Lunanime, Promenons-nous dans les bois, Tchack, Les Fées Spéciales, In Efecto, Les Films d’Ici, Upside Films, France 3 Cinéma ; produit par Serge Lalou ; scénario, Jean-Louis Milesi ; un film de Aurel.

Outsider: the life and art of Judith Scott / a film by Betty Bayha ; produced and directed by Betsy Bayha.

Searching for Gerda Taro / a Brotherfilms production; a film by Camille Ménager ; produced by Emmanuel François, Alice Mansion.

Unguarded / a film by Simonetta d’Italia Wiener; directed and produced by Simonetta d’Italia Wiener; produced by T.J. Berden.

Sankara’s orphans / a film by Géraldine Berger.

If this ain’t heaven / by Roberta Cantow; photographed, edited and produced by Roberta Cantow.

Oxhide II / scriptwriter, director, cinematographer, Liu Jia Yin.

Les enfants terribles / produced by Delphine Morel, Anke Petersen, and Nadir Öperli; written, filmed and directed by Ahmet Necdet Cupur.

Le chant du styrene / réalisation, Alain Resnais.

The story of looking / directed, filmed and written by Mark Cousins; producers, Mary Bell and Adam Dawtrey.

State of terrorism. Part 1 / a film in two parts written and directed by Ilan Ziv; produced by Céline Nusse, Paul Rozenberg, Ilan Ziv and Paul Cadieux.

Aware: glimpses of consciousness / written and directed by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black; produced by Frauke Sandig, Umbrella Films and Eric Black in co-production with Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, and ZDF/3sat.

Close relations (Rodnye) / Vertov, Baltic Film Production, 435 Films, Saxonia Entertainment, Ego Media present a film by Vitaly Mansky ; written and directed by Vitaly Mansky.

Meat the future / a film by Liz Marshall; written and directed by Liz Marshall; produced by Liz Marshall.

Clotheslines / by Roberta Cantow; produced and directed by Roberta Cantow.

Rocío / a movie by Dario Guerrero.

The dirty war on the National Health Service / a film by John Pilger; written, produced and directed by John Pilger; a Dartmouth Films Production.

Lourdes / a Falabracks, Mars Films, France 3 Cinéma co-production; a film by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai; based upon an idea proposed by Sixtine Léon-Dufour ; written by Jeanne Aptekman, Sixtine Léon-Dufour, Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai.

The river between us / a film by Carl Gierstorfer; written and directed by Carl Gierstorfer ; produced by Docdays Productions.

It is not over yet / director, Louise Detlefsen; producer, Malene Flindt Pedersen; co-producer, Jürgen Kleinig; this film is a Danish-German co-production between Hansen & Pedersen and Neue Celluloid Fabrik.

Thirst for justice / director, Leana Hosea; producer, Leana Hosea; co-producers, Tony Infante, Fateh Ahmed.

Monobloc / a film by Hauke Wendler; written and directed by Hauke Wendler.

Antisemitism / a Zadig Productions, Filmoption International, T.A.M.I. Media production; a film by Ilan Ziv; produced by Céline Nusse, Paul Rozenberg and Paul Cadieux; written and directed by Ilan Ziv.

State of terrorism. Part 2 / a film in two parts written and directed by Ilan Ziv; produced by Céline Nusse, Paul Rozenberg, Paul Cadieux, Ilan Ziv.

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Higher Education Research & Development

Higher Education Research & Development informs and challenges researchers, teachers, administrators, policy-makers and others concerned with the past, present and future of higher education. The journal publishes scholarly articles that make a significant and original contribution to the field of higher education. – Publisher

 

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Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

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Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City is dedicated to advancing our collective knowledge about how race and ethnicity shape our cities and neighborhoods and inform our urban experiences on a global scale, and, in turn, how urbanization contributes to the social construction of race and ethnicity. – Publisher

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African Newspapers: The British Library Collection

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African Newspapers: The British Library Collection

African Newspapers: The British Library Collection features nearly 60 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901. Originally archived by the British Library—the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the largest and most respected libraries in the world—these rare historical documents are now available for the first time in a fully searchable online collection. From culture to history to geopolitics, the pages of these newspapers offer fresh research opportunities for students and scholars interested in topics related to Africa. – Publisher

 

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