Results for "Walsh, Brian"

Most Americans regard the postwar Occupation of Japan as a prime example of American magnanimity. They are blithely unaware of the prevailing Japanese myth that upon entering Japan, U.S. servicemen "engaged in an orgy of looting, sexual violence, and drunken brawling" and that during the first ten d... Read More about The Rape of Japan: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence During the Allied Occupation

Have we really heard the message of Colossians? Is this New Testament book just another religious text whose pretext is an ideological grab for dominating power? Reading Colossians in context, ancient and contemporary, can perhaps give us new ears to hear. In this innovative and refreshing book Bria... Read More about Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire

Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year The carnivalesque, pluralistic culture in hich we live can be seen as a consequence of the breakdown of modernity (which touted itself as the "greatest show on earth"), combined with a recognition of the socially constructed character of reali... Read More about Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age

2020 Gold Independent Publisher Book Award in West-Pacific, Best Regional Non-Fiction2019 Silver Nautilus Award in Ecology & Environment2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Regional Puget Sound is a magnificent and intricate estuary, the very core of life in Western Washing... Read More about We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea

The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way histor... Read More about Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History

"The Revenger's Tragedy "is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its sa... Read More about The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides)