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In the first book to explore the entire range of memoirs, biographies, and group histories published since America's Vietnam POWs returned home, Craig Howes describes how these captives drew upon their national heritage to compose a collective history while still in prison, and how individual POWs have responded to this Official Story. Examining what racial, cultural, and political assumptions support this shared Official Story, Howes places the POWs' experiences squarely in the centre of American history, and within those larger clashes of opinion and belief which characterized the nation's response to the Vietnam War. The result is an engrossing study of what these captivity narratives can tell us about the POWs, their jailors, and America's Vietnam legacy.

Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam responded by holding tight to their chosen motto, "Return with Honor." "We''re giving the American people what they want and badly need--heroes," said a Vietnam jungle POW. "I feel it''s our responsibility, our duty to help them where possible shed the idea this war was a waste, useless, as unpopular as it may have been." In the first book to explore the entire range of memoirs, biographies, and group histories published since America''s Vietnam POWs returned home, Craig Howes explores the development of a collective history. He describes how these captives drew upon their national heritage to compose a unified, common story while still in prison, and how individual POWs have responded to this Official Story. Examining what racial, cultural, and political assumptions support this shared Official Story, Howes places the POWs'' experiences squarely in the center of American history, and within those larger clashes of opinion and belief which characterized the nation''s response to the Vietnam War. The result is an engrossing study of what these captivity narratives can tell us about the POWs, their captors, and America''s Vietnam legacy.

A History of British Comic and Satiric Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Laughter and Attack offers a comprehensive, highly detailed critical history of these publications, and supplies extensive bibliographical information about them. The volume directs readers to the pertinent historical, critical, and theoretical literature; synthesizes and complements the many critical studies dealing with specific periodicals and publishing; adds greatly to the scholarship concerning later Victorian serials; and supplies the first detailed accounts of Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and English regional comic and satiric periodicals. After a brief description of the generic and historical characteristics of nineteenth-century British serial publications, and of the received and developing understanding of comedy and satire during this period, the volume is divided into six sections—1790 to 1830, the 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s to 1900. Because virtually all previous studies deal with much shorter spans of time, this history supplies the most sustained account of the political, cultural, and literary contexts for understanding the fortunes of specific periodicals; the professional careers of the writers, artists, editors, and publishers who produced them; the emergence, development, and disappearance of certain comic and satiric forms and practices; the century-long legal challenges; and the impact of technological developments on publication and distribution. The product of decades of archival research, A History of British Comic and Satiric Periodicals identifies over twelve-hundred periodicals—many disappearing after a single issue, others enduring for many decades. Within its broad historical sections the periodicals are grouped and evaluated thematically, generically, politically, and technologically. The volume also provides a critical introduction to previous scholarship produced in several academic disciplines. This volume will immediately become a primary reference work and history for scholars, researchers, and students in British periodical studies; literary, cultural, and political history; rhetorical studies; genre studies (comedy, satire, parody, burlesque); graphic art and comics studies; and more generally, for cultural theorists and historians interested in the legacy of visual and verbal representations of race, class, gender, and nation.

Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam responded by holding tight to their chosen motto, "Return with Honor." "We''re giving the American people what they want and badly need--heroes," said a Vietnam jungle POW. "I feel it''s our responsibility, our duty to help them where possible shed the idea this war was a waste, useless, as unpopular as it may have been." In the first book to explore the entire range of memoirs, biographies, and group histories published since America''s Vietnam POWs returned home, Craig Howes explores the development of a collective history. He describes how these captives drew upon their national heritage to compose a unified, common story while still in prison, and how individual POWs have responded to this Official Story. Examining what racial, cultural, and political assumptions support this shared Official Story, Howes places the POWs'' experiences squarely in the center of American history, and within those larger clashes of opinion and belief which characterized the nation''s response to the Vietnam War. The result is an engrossing study of what these captivity narratives can tell us about the POWs, their captors, and America''s Vietnam legacy.

Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603–1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where they waited upon the Tokugawa shogun. Based on a prodigious amount of research in both published and archival primary sources, Tour of Duty renders alternate attendance as a lived experience, for not only the daimyo but also the samurai retainers who accompanied them. Beyond exploring the nature of travel to and from the capital as well as the period of enforced bachelorhood there, Constantine Vaporis elucidates―for the first time―the significance of alternate attendance as an engine of cultural, intellectual, material, and technological exchange.Vaporis argues against the view that cultural change simply emanated from the center (Edo) and reveals more complex patterns of cultural circulation and production taking place between the domains and Edo and among distant parts of Japan. What is generally known as "Edo culture" in fact incorporated elements from the localities. In some cases, Edo acted as a nexus for exchange; at other times, culture traveled from one area to another without passing through the capital. As a result, even those who did not directly participate in alternate attendance experienced a world much larger than their own. Vaporis begins by detailing the nature of the trip to and from the capital for one particular large-scale domain, Tosa, and its men and goes on to analyze the political and cultural meanings of the processions of the daimyo and their extensive entourages up and down the highways. These parade-like movements were replete with symbolic import for the nature of early modern governance. Later chapters are concerned with the physical and social environment experienced by the daimyo’s retainers in Edo; they also address the question of who went to Edo and why, the network of physical spaces in which the domainal samurai lived, the issue of staffing, political power, and the daily lives and consumption habits of retainers. Finally, Vaporis examines retainers as carriers of culture, both in a literal and a figurative sense. In doing so, he reveals the significance of travel for retainers and their identity as consumers and producers of culture, thus proposing a multivalent model of cultural change.