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  • Performance and Religion in Early Modern England

    Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    Series series ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
    In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture.Smith argues that early modern theatrical and religious practices are better understood through ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespearean Recognitions

    Philosophies of the Post-Tragic

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Shakespearean Recognitions: Philosophies of the Post-Tragic explores Shakespeare’s unique contribution to the history of recognition as both a narrative trope and a moral event. Recognition, central to classical anagnorisis and modern moral philosophy, also has deep roots in medieval Christian devotion, where salvation often hinged on reciprocal recognition with God. Shakespeare inherited this ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Red and Black in Haiti

    Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier to the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Liberty, Fraternity, Exile

    Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation

    by Matthew J. Smith ...
    In this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. The frequent movement of people between Haiti and Jamaica in the decades following emancipation in the British Caribbean brought the countries into closer contact and influenced discourse about the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Jamaica Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Diana Paton, Matthew J. Smith ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

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    Blackbeard

    A Life from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...
    Series series Pirates

    Unabridged

    52 min

    Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was the most feared pirate of the Golden Age—a towering figure who struck terror into the hearts of sailors from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Most biographies seem to start and stop with that statement, but there was much more to the life of Blackbeard than that, and much more to learn about the man behind history’s most fearsome pirate legend.From his ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literature and Religious Experience

    Beyond Belief and Unbelief

    Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Caleb D. Spencer ...
    This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry.Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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    Battle of New Orleans

    A History from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    The deciding battle of the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans, was won by the Americans on January 8, 1815, a few scant weeks after the British and American negotiators signed the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war, at least on paper. Assessed from that perspective, it might be regarded as an unnecessary battle of no importance, but nothing could be further from the truth.Had the British ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Catherine Parr

    A Life from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Narrated by Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...
    Series series Biographies of British Royalty

    Unabridged

    58 min

    For many, she was simply the last of King Henry VIII’s many wives, but Catherine Parr was much more than that. She had a unique and incredible history all of her own. Catherine was a dynamic figure who survived more than her fair share of hardship. Even before she married Henry, she found herself caught up in the drama of England’s Reformation, and at one point, she was even held hostage in her ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It Happens at Comic-Con

    Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon

    Edited by Ben Bolling, Matthew J. Smith ...
    This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer.Investigations range from the practices of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • More Critical Approaches to Comics

    Theories and Methods

    Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Matthew Brown, Randy Duncan ...
    In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels

    Culture, Form, and Context

    by PhD Randy Duncan, PhD Matthew J. Smith, Mr Paul Levitz ...
    After the successful and innovative first two editions, now in a new, restructured 3rd edition, this remains the most authoritative introduction for studying comic books and graphic novels, covering their place in contemporary culture, the manifestations and techniques of the art form, the evolution of the medium and how to analyze and write about them.The new edition includes:- A completely ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD