Christine Wade is a writer captivated by the Hudson River, a passion ignited during her time at Bard College and sustained through her life along its shores in New York City and the Catskill Mountains. Her debut novel explored the profound connection between humanity and the natural world, reflecting her deep familiarity with the riverine landscape. Wade's work delves into the intricate relationship between people and their environment, offering resonant insights into how our surroundings shape our lives and experiences.
Against the backdrop of the Catskills just before the Revolutionary War, a haunting narrative unfolds as a woman grapples with her husband's mysterious disappearance. Left to fend for herself and her children, she navigates the challenges of survival and the emotional turmoil of abandonment. This beautifully written debut captures the tension of the era while exploring themes of loss, resilience, and the struggles of a family in crisis.
In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others.