... Bomber Plant near Ypsilanti Township. It describes how plant workers lived in trailer camps, focusing on the experience of the family of Jane Castle, and the emergence of a trailer camp community at Willow Run. It also looks at the Truman Committee’s investigation of the Ford Motor Company’s production...

...This chapter investigates another of Kafka’s works, The Castle. The founding hypothesis in this chapter revolves around the notion that “community” depends on the assumption that each member of a community has access, in some form or another, to the thoughts and feelings of his...

... an increasingly depersonalized mode of narration that functions as a literary equivalent to legal and economic representations of corporate agency. Franz Kafka's novels The Castle (1922) and The Trial (1914–15), in turn, emphasize the somatic pressures exerted on K. through his...

...Chapter four defines a gothic subgenre of the black-market melodrama—exemplified by Homeland, Counterpart, The Man in the High Castle, and The Americans—in which “the domestic” designates both familial and national space and in which borders collapse not just between work and home, but between...

... popular image of the High Middle Ages—castles and knights—is actually helpful. Studying the economics of castles and warfare can also tell us a lot about the time. This chapter examines the concept of opportunity cost with respect to castle-based warfare during the High Middle Ages. It presents...

...This chapter portrays the story of the Savelli double murder, which is by design no less formal than a sixteenth-century castle garden, with its thyme and marjoram, dill and sage, arugula and mint, in tidy plots inside geometric little hedges. In the story, both space and time, as they are laid out...

...A sculpture of Pegasus welcomed the 18th-century visitor to the riding stable of Castle Weissenstein in Pommersfelden (Franconia, Germany), the private residence of the Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz of Schoenborn. Situated above the stable’s main entrance, this mythological figure provides only a hint...

...On 1 March 1954, a powerful thermonuclear device rocked Bikini Atoll in the United States’ Pacific Proving Grounds. Castle Bravo’s dangerously radioactive fallout blanketed nearby Rongelap Atoll like fresh snow. The US Navy quickly whisked away the Marshall Islanders who called the suddenly...

... Kyrenia Cyprus Old Paphos pilgrimage Sozomen historian Constantinople Gennadios archbishop of Constantinople Hilarion’s Castle Lusignans French rulers of Cyprus Neophytos hermit Durrell Lawrence Makhairas Leontios historian Ezousa valley Cyprus landscapes Papacostas Tassos ruins religion...

... on personal guides, especially his wife Helen Castle Mead, for his participation in and understanding of the social landscape. This focus on Hawaii helps specify Mead's reform work and theorizing about democratic societies, and it provides an opportunity to reformulate the nature of “context” as an analytical...

...Kafka’s The Trial and The Castle suggest a foreshadowing of Auschwitz. Under the aegis of Jules Michelet’s dictum, the chapter aims to show just how. In Kafka’s conversation with his friend Gustav Janouch, he fears the possible prophetic power to bring about large...