Liberal Arts In Print - Spring 2025
Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People’s History, Volume Two from 1865 (Ninth Edition)
Co-Authored by Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary and distinguished professor of history (Oxford University Press)
New to the ninth edition, nearly every chapter has been strengthened with material—both textual and visual—that illuminates the central problem under question and many new documents have been added. An enhanced eBook includes online "Image Walkthroughs" designed to help students analyze a range of visual material including political cartoons, broadsides, artwork, advertisements, and the like. Adopters also now have access to a Teachers Guide assembled by the authors.
Novel-Poetry: The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form
Co-Authored by Emily Allen, associate professor of English (Oxford University Press)
Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel, a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century, to make a larger claim about the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and identity that cross genres. The volume uncovers trajectories of literary influence that structure our approach to literature and affect how we shape our lives, lives which are often constrained by cause-and-effect and narrative-driven ways of approaching time and possibility.
From Rus’ to Rímur: Norse History, Culture, and Literature East and West
Co-Edited by Shaun F. D. Hughes, professor of English (Cornell University Press)
From Rus' to Rímur offers six contributions that range across Europe from East to West and across three categories: "Historical Studies," "Literary Studies," and "New Editions." The volume opens with a historical-onomastic study of the Varangian presence in Medieval Rus' and proceeds to the Isle of Man for a consideration of its population's "ethnogenesis" in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Literary studies and fresh translations follow to return our attention to the remarkable creativity in sagas and poetry that was an especially rich province of Norse and Icelandic culture.
The Spacefaring Earth: A History of the Space Age
By Michael G. Smith, professor of history (Routledge)
Smith's survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies, while examining the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth. This volume encompasses the national competitions of WWI, the rocket states that prepared for WWII, the rivalries and “space race” of the Cold War, as well as more recent developments including the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, national space programs, orbital technologies, transhumanism, and military and commercial ventures in space.
A Posthumous History of José Martí: The Apostle and His Afterlife
By Alfred J. López, department head and professor of English (Routledge)
In A Posthumous History of José Martí, López focuses on Martí’s legacy and his lasting influence on succeeding generations of Cubans on the island and abroad. The book explores more recent scholarship that has reassessed Martí’s literary, cultural, and ideological value, allowing us to read him beyond the Havana-Miami axis toward engagement with a broader historical and geographical tableau. Martí has thus begun to outgrow his mutually reinforcing cults in Cuba and the diaspora to assume his true significance as a hemispheric and global writer and thinker.
Experiential Spectatorship: Immersion, Participation, and Play During Times of Deep Mediatization
By William W. Lewis, assistant professor of theatre (Routledge)
In Experiential Spectatorship, Lewis offers a lens for analyzing audience experience with a variety of contemporary media including participatory theatre, video games, digital simulations, social media platforms, alternate reality games, choose your own adventure narratives, interactive television, and a variety of other experiential performance events. This book prepares the reader to think in a digital manner so they can best recognize how performance and spectatorship in the twenty-first century are evolving to meet the needs of future waves of spectators brought up in a post digital world.
The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
Co-Edited by Stacey L. Connaughton, professor of communication and director the Purdue Policy Research
Institute and of the Purdue Peace Project (Routledge) This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field. The volume brings together peace studies, conflict studies, and communication studies to acknowledge the power of communication—both cooperative, solidarizing, and integrative as well as destructive and divisive—in constituting social relations.
Ibero-Dutch Imperial Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century
Co-Edited by Silvia Z. Mitchell, associate professor of history (Pelgrave Macmillan)
Ibero-Dutch Imperial Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century explores the entanglements among Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century from a global perspective. It offers a compelling analysis of how Ibero-Dutch relations shifted from violence and conflict—during the Iberian Union (1580–1640) and the Dutch quest for independence (1579–1648)—into collaboration and coexistence in the century’s second half.
WSQ: Pandemonium
Co-Edited by Tracey Jean Boisseau, associate professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies (The Feminist Press)
WSQ: Pandemonium documents a global surge in attacks on feminist and queer studies originating in right-wing movements, authoritarian regimes, and the chaos generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring research, personal narratives, creative works, and interviews with scholars and leaders of embattled academic programs located in the U.S. and around the world, this issue creates space for reflection, collaboration, and resistance.
Partisan Rhetoric and Polarization: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 10
By Robert X. Browning, professor of political science and communication and director of C-SPAN Archives (Purdue University Press)
Partisan Rhetoric and Polarization: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 10 features chapters written from a variety of perspectives that address divisions in American politics. The topics range widely and include TikTok, abortion, the middle class, the January 6 riot, and partisan rhetoric in Congress.
The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon: 300 Years in the Making
Co-Edited by H. Kory Cooper, associate professor of anthropology (Purdue University Press)
The French fur trade post of Fort Ouiatenon was founded more than 300 years ago on the Wabash River in what is now Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon is a multidisciplinary exploration of the fort, from its founding in 1717, through its historical significance over the years and up to its present-day use. Covering a variety of historical, archaeological, Indigenous, and living history perspectives on Fort Ouiatenon, as well as the fur trade and New France, this collection is the first volume dedicated to this historic site.
Forging the Future: A History of the John Martinson Honors College, 2013-2023
Co-Edited by Emily Allen, associate professor of English (Purdue University Press)
Part institutional history, part biography of a place and its people, Forging the Future is the story of a collaborative effort to build a visionary place: an academic-residential college that would bring together students from across disciplines and differences to rethink the goals and practices of a college education. How that collective dream took shape—from the first, speculative discussions of a college to the literal construction of its buildings and the arrival of its students—is a tale researched, written, and published by the students and alumni of the JMHC.
Writing Proposals and Grants, Third Edition
Co-Authored by Richard Johnson-Sheehan, professor of English (Parlor Press)
Writing Proposals and Grants, Third Edition takes readers through the entire proposal and grant writing process—from finding and analyzing requests for proposals to designing final deliverables. The third edition offers additional guidance for grant proposal writing (including details about writing literature reviews and research methods), new and revised case studies and sample proposals, and advice about integrating generative artificial intelligence applications into proposal and grant writing workflows.