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To edit, annotate and translate selections from Kierkegaard's journals and papers into first English edition. Will comprise Volume IV of the project. Volume I won the 1968 National Book award for translation. ABSTRACT: Editing, annotating and translating selections from Kierkegaard's journals and papers into an English edition. Since Kierkegaard's works one of major intellectual influences of 20th century, important that journals and papers be made available in English. Especially important for contemporary philosophy literature, psychology and social-cultural analysis because of great influence of Kierkegaard. Volume I of Soren Kierkegaard's Journal and Papers published in 1967; Volume II scheduled for publication spring 1970; Volume III scheduled for publication in late 1970, early 1971. Volume IV, final substantive volume (Volume V to be autobiographical) to be completed under this fellowship. Volume I won the 1968 National Book Award for translation.

To research in unpublished archival sources, namely recently declassified offical American and British materials on Greece during World War II and the private papers of important officials concerned with Greek affairs.

To seek psychological causes for participation in a guerilla uprising in Western Missouri during the years 1861-65. Data for the project includes identification of participants and their families, a control group of non-particpants, analysis of election returns, content analysis of guerilla writings and newspapers providing contemporary accounts.

To prepare for publication an edition of the papers of the first working and class reform group in England, the London Corresponding Society (1792-1798). This controversial organization of artisans, mechanics, and small shopkeepers sought a radical reform of Parliament. Within two years their cause had attracted 10,000 members. The unpublished papers of the Society - letters, minutes, financial records, reports from spies - will help us to decide how close England was to revolution. They will also show us the intricacies of the British working-class movement in its infancy.

To examine, in a book, American attitudes toward social change in the period 1860 to 1890. Grantee will study rapid changes in the economy, the unplanned growth of cities, and deepening social distress. The book is intended to carry forward the analysis of American thought begun in grantee's earlier work The Mind of America, 1820-1860. The work now being undertaken will focus on the public thought of relatively ordinary men and women, whose beliefs are best represented in such vehicles of opinion as newspapers, legislative and constitutional debates, party tracts, and similar publications.

To study and examine the thought of the Founders of the American Republic. The study will examine the thought of Madison and Adams, and then consider more broadly the thoughts and actions of the men of Philadelphia, of the ratifying conventions, and of the state convention;

To examine the impact of the Civil War on a black-belt community in the Deep South, specifically Dallas County, Alabama, 1850-1875, and also the relationship between war and social change. In addition to traditional newspapers and manuscript sources, study will employ some quantitative techniques of computer analysis. Among questions to be investigated are kinship ties, household structure, the dynamics of family life, rates of mobility, formation and persistence of leadership groups, and the distribution of wealth, power and status for the free society as a whole.

To show the people, places and incidents that Katherine Anne Porter used in her published and unpublished work so that students of literature might understand the understatement "I arrange it" (Porter has said that it is an absolute rule of her work that she makes nothing up, "My fiction is reportage really. I arrange it and it is fiction but it happened."), and be able to study a unique creative method. Porter asked PI to be her biographer and literary executor, and book The Brave Voyage: The Life of Katherine Anne Porter will address itself to that task. Porter, as well as her relatives are cooperating and have given access to papers, tapes, and other materials.

To write a book about James Mill's political philosophy. Book will cast some new light on a political philosopher who has stood too long in the doubly obscuring shadow of Jeremy Bentham and of his more famous son, John Stuart Mill. Hals will be the first book-length critical and historical study of James Mill's political philosophy and, moreover, the first to make use of the newly discovered Mill papers.

A book-length study of how 18th- and 19th-century French cultural expressions responded to economic crises in France between 1720 and 1820.
 

French literature has received a lot of attention lately from an unexpected public: economists. Nineteenth-century novels have particular appeal for economists seeking information on the wealth needed to frequent the elite of the 1820s, or the harsh consequences of bankruptcy laws. But the 1720s were actually more important for the history of finance than the 1820s. They saw the rise and fall of the Law System, which caused the first boom and bust in asset prices and left a long shadow over the years ahead. I argue that the Law System impacted an entire corpus of artifacts that I seek to study and combine in a new narrative of financial calamity. My book addresses how novelists, artists, and journalists kept fears of credit and borrowing in the air at four crucial moments: 1) during and after Law's system (1718-31); 2) during the early Revolution when the assignat was created 1789-91); 3) in the Directory period (1795-99); and (4) during the reign of Louis XVIII (1815-24).

Archival research on the history of early drama in Northumberland, England, as part of the Records of Early English Drama series.
 

I seek a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in order to continue my research in primary source documents for performances in Northumberland, England, from the earliest surviving manuscript evidence to the closing of the theaters by Parliament in 1642. The Records of Early English Drama (REED) Project has commissioned me to make a thorough search, to gather and edit all extant primary source documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, performance and public ceremony in England before 1642 from the private collections and public records offices throughout Northumberland, in archives that maintained an economic or political relationship with civic authorities or patrons in Northumberland, and in repositories to which records have been transferred. In addition to scholarly papers and articles that will be prepared throughout the course of this project, the end products will include the final hard copy volume of the REED series and a digital version of the Northumberland records.

A book about the complicated history of McDonald's, the National Black McDonald’s Operators Association, and inner-city African Americans.

Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: How Civil Rights and Fast Food Changed America uncovers the precise moment in which McDonald’s transformed itself from a suburban oasis for white families to enjoy offerings from a three-item menu, to a ubiquitous presence on the busiest corners of urban America. Essentially, this is the story of the racial turn in fast food. While health warriors fight an army of trans fats, value meals, and splashy advertisements, few have considered how fast food planted its flag so firmly into the racially segregated battlefields of this conflict. The stakes are high for this story, told by a historian and of broad relevance to a variety of scholars in American history, food studies, urban studies, and civil rights.

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The fellowship will be used to complete a book concerning Japanese Buddhist world travel and interchanges with Buddhists throughout the globe from 1868 to 1945. In the book I analyze a variety of sources, including travel diaries, newspapers, magazines, accounts of exhibitions, artworks imported from other parts of Asia or produced in Japan, and novel pan-Asian Buddhist monuments and temples. Japanese Buddhists made use of these exchanges and the new knowledge of other Buddhisms in order to enhance their prestige both at home and abroad. The renewed emphasis upon Buddhism as a pan-Asian or, even, a global religion figured importantly in the construction of new conceptions of Asia, the East, and Eastern culture in Japan. I will tie the reformulation of Japanese Buddhism as part of a pan-Asian tradition with global aspirations to broader historical issues that include the emergence of nation-states and Japanese imperialism in Asia. These new conceptions of Japanese Buddhism remain relevant during the post-war period, providing the groundwork for Japanese Buddhist pan-Asianism, international Buddhist cooperation, and the global Buddhist movement. The book, which describes the on-going importance of Buddhism in Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, will be of interest to scholars in Buddhist studies, religious studies, Japanese studies, and Asian history.

I will analyze the various ways that post-World War II segregationists sought to intensify southern support for the South's system of racial domination and to legitimate that system in northerners' eyes. My next book, based on extensive archival research in the papers of segregationist leaders and in the papers of civil rights groups that monitored the segregationists, will provide a fuller sense of the drama of civil rights battles in the period--and of the unpredictability of their outcome. Most historians have--understandably--focused on grassroots organizing among African Americans in the period. We need fuller research on their opposition. A Fellowship would allow me to complete an eight-year project with a full scholarly monograph.

The requested fellowship will support a book in progress on San Francisco's musical life from the 1906 earthquake to the end of World War II. Two world fairs bookend the period under consideration: the Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915) and the Golden Gate Exposition (1939). This period saw a changing aesthetic--from the emulation of East Coast culture to a more distinctive regional style embracing the area's inherent multiculturalism. In the immediate post-quake period, European-influenced arts predominated: the symphony and opera were founded, while a burgeoning jazz scene was stifled and Chinese opera (the colorful language of San Francisco's largest ethnic minority) languished. However, by the 1930s, San Francisco--which now rivaled New York in the new music scene--featured an experimentalism that included diverse traditions, particularly those of Asia. In 1940 American composer Henry Cowell praised an emerging local style fueled by individualism and cultural integration. This book will trace such changing aesthetic priorities, focusing on subcultures and their interactions. (Edited by staff.)

This study of Iroquoian movement contends that commitment to spatial mobility and its exercise circa 1666 to 1777 allowed Iroquois people to retain far greater degree of external political influence and internal social cohesion than historians have hitherto acknowledged or understood. Mobility supported a broad repertoire of cultural tools to confront the challenges and opportunities posed by settler colonialism in ways that would become substantially more difficult after the American Revolution, when spatial confinement on reservations constricted the creative role of mobility in Iroquois society and marked them as colonized peoples.

I propose to bring together into a book my previous work on Friedrich Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics, expanding on published articles and papers presented over the last several years. This work fills a gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of ancient skepticism--the Pyrrhonian tradition in particular--promises to illuminate Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry itself. Moreover, this work breaks new ground in the scholarship on one of the last century's most influential thinkers by presenting an interpretation of his thought that answers and connects together heretofore open questions about the coherence and lasting impact of his views.

This proposal requests support for 12 months of research and writing toward my second book, a study of the political culture of the Near East in the tenth through thirteenth centuries via documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza (a synagogue repository for worn manuscripts now in European and US libraries). Patronage and Politics argues that the survival and spread of Judaism came to depend upon Jewish leaders' adoption of political techniques from Muslim elites; and, conversely, that the documents these Jews preserved, which include papers from Egyptian chancery archives previously presumed lost, are an untapped mine of information about the medieval Near Eastern state and its treatment of religious minorities. The goals of the book are to offer finely shaded pictures of the Jewish community under Islamic rule, of its relationship to the local states under whose aegis it matured, and of the pervasive but varied effects of imperial domination on subject communities.

This study analyzes nineteenth-century British poetry in a global context, from poems printed on ships sailing to Australia to poetry written in letters and journals by British citizens traveling in India, Chile, and Canada. This alternative archive of British poetry composed from abroad reshapes our understanding of poetry written during this period and, more important, suggests how poetry reflects upon and influences the construction of national identity both at home and in the world at large. The project asks questions long central to humanistic studies, but--in its global purview--frames them in importantly different ways. My work gives especial attention to poetry written by women and working-class writers. I am committed to an interdisciplinary approach that borrows from emerging work in cosmopolitan studies and that balances literary studies (close reading, textual analysis), cultural history, and political theory.

The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination argues that our understanding of the history of modern feminism—conceived of as a movement dedicated to fostering equal political rights as well as professional opportunities, sexual and psychological liberation, autonomy, creative expression, and social justice for women—changes if we recognize the significant impact of revolutionary Russia upon prominent female suffragists, reformers, journalists, performers, authors, activists, and other public figures in the first half of the twentieth century. Russia served as a kind of alter-ego to the U.S.; this fact, along with its tradition of women's revolutionary activism, an avowed commitment by Russian revolutionaries to equality and opportunity for women, and, in the Soviet era, the fact that the USSR stood for the very idea of internationalism, helped Russia exert a singular but heretofore unacknowledged influence on American feminism.