NANCY R. REAGIN is professor of history and women's and gender studies at Pace University. She has been active in fan organizations for more years than she cares to admit; her current research project focuses on the history of fan communities since the late nineteenth century. She is the editor of Twilight and History, Harry Potter and History, and Star Trek and History.
JANICE LIEDL is associate professor of history at Laurentian University. She has been an avid fan of Star Wars since the first film's 1977 release. Her present research deals with the history of English stepmothers from the sixteenth century. She contributed to both Twilight and History and Harry Potter and History and is the editor of The Hobbit and History.
Introduction 000
Part I Only Imperial Stormtroopers Are So Precise?
The Wars in Star Wars 000
1 Why Rebels Triumph 000
How ?Insignificant? Rebellions Can Change History
William J. Astore
2 ?Part of the Rebel Alliance and a Traitor? 000
Women in War and Resistance
Janice Liedl and Nancy R. Reagin
3 Elegant Weapons for Civilized Ages 000
The Jedi and Warrior-Monks throughout History
Terrance MacMullan
4 ?A House Divided? 000
The Causes and Costs of Civil War
Paul Horvath and Mark Higbee
Part II Join Me, and Together We Can Rule the Galaxy as Father and Son? Political Histories in Star Wars 000
5 I, Sidious 000
Historical Dictators and Senator Palpatine?s Rise to Power
Tony Keen
6 Teen Queen 000
Padmé Amidala and the Power of Royal Women
Janice Liedl
7 ?There?s Always a Bigger Fish? 000
Power, Politics, and the Rule of the Ruthless
Kevin S. Decker
8 Nuclear Weapons and the Death Star 000
Lori Maguire
Part III Excuse Me, Sir, but That R2-D2 Is in Prime Condition, a Real Bargain? Economy and Society in a Galaxy Long, Long Ago 000
9 From Slavery to Freedom in a Galaxy Far, Far Away 000
Paul Finkelman
10 ?Greed Can Be a Powerful Ally? 000
The Trade Federation, the East India Companies, and Chaotic Worlds of Trade
Michael Laver
11 Coruscant, the Great Cities of Earth, and Beyond 000
Katrina Gulliver
The Jedi Council 000
Acknowledgments 000
Notes 000
Index 000
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