Books published by University of Illinois Press

The unique lives and careers of contemporary Chinese musicians

A grand portrait of early opera's use of Roman history, from the perspectives of classical literature and musical history

An intimate view of Theodore Dreiser's exchanges with women

A former police sergeant draws on philosophy, literature, and art to reveal the profound--indeed poetic--significance of police-citizen encounters

An impressive collection of Jewish signet rings and seals from the Sasanian Empire

Examining social and popular dance forms from a variety of critical and cultural perspectives

An extensive history of the founding and early days of the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois

A penetrating study of the anti-Semitic attitudes held by major American naturalist authors

How activists in the African diaspora formed a black merchant marine, building the foundation for a black nation-state

A daily account of enormous courage and unthinkable horror during the Nanjing Massacre

The dynamic genre of musical theater that transformed popular entertainment in Cuba

An urgent argument for political responsibility, rooted in responsive action

The first English translation of Jean Paulhan's major essays

Good and evil, light and darkness; for the first time in English, a potent survey of Manichaeism

Investigating the effects of PCB toxicity on humans and the environment

Probing the intersection of music and racial politics in California

An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community

The extraordinary life of labor activist, immigrant, and feminist, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman

Power, language, and urban planning politics in Washington, D.C.

The legacy of an exceptional world leader

The first reference tool to focus on American women directors

Understanding Lincoln's influence on twenty-first century law and politics

An introduction to the extraordinary life of John Cage, composer, writer, and artist

Uncovering powerful and threatening secrets in African American literature

Documents the key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement. This work tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws.

John Dygon was the prior of St Augustine's monastery in Canterbury when Henry VIII dissolved the English Catholic Church during the 1530s and reorganized it under royal control. This volume features these two treatises, providing a transcription and English translation. It provides an example of musical scholarship from the early Tudor period.

Grouped into twenty-one thematic sections, this collection provides theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.