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Unstable ground
Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around abandoned mines in South Africa, Unstable Ground reveals the worlds that gold made possible—and gold’s profound costs for those who have lived in its shadow and dreamt of its transformative power.
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Until the fires stopped burning
Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier has also accepted many seared by the disa...
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Up from invisibility
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the m...
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Urban formalism
This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of “reading” the...
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Utopianism for a dying planet
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crisesIn the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behav...
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Velvet retro
This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s m...
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Venezuela in crisis
In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime. Venezuela in Crisis brings together a diverse array of Venezuelan thinkers and activists to grapple with the quest...
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Venice and the mongols
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval ageIn the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realizing the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers establi...
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Video conferencing
Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction.
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Video revolutions
Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate...
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Village life in hong kong revisited
An anthropological study of how the structure of village life explored in this book is a fading memory for the village residents.
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Villages and market towns in hong kong
Patrick H. Hase presents An Oral history of the New Territories villages and market towns.
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Violence | perception | video games
This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. From BA students to postdoctoral researchers, the young academics of this anthology stem from a spectrum of backgrounds, including game studies, game design, and phenomenology.
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Voice assistants in private homes
This book discusses voice assistants and how they have transformed everyday linguistic, media, and data practices thanks to platformized conditions and new interfaces.
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War and an irish town
War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.
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War and revolution in catalonia, 1936-1939
This translation of a landmark study is the first monograph in English to focus on Catalonia during the Civil War.
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Wasting libby
An investigation of the greatest environmental crime in US history.
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Waterloo sunrise
A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. ...
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We cannot escape history
The latest collection of essays from the Deutscher Prize winning Marxist scholar, Neil Davidson.
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We, the anarchists!
Essential reading on the Spanish Civil War and resistance to twentieth-century fascism and capitalism.
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Weighing the evidence: who killed gandhi?
This volume brings to light the report of the Kapur Commission, which was appointed by the government of India in 1965 to examine the depth and scope of the conspiracy that lay behind the killing of Gandhi. This three-volume report has been absent from the public domain though it contains invalua...
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Weimar controversies
In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer’s trenchant observations on Weimar’s contradictions to let society’s underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into...
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Welcoming ruin
The first full-length study of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and its afterlives.
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Western europe’s democratic age
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provid...
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What is history for?
“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake ne...
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What we eat
What We Eat explores world history through the lens of the global journeys of nearly ninety food products. Leading historians trace the origins and popularization of items commonly found in supermarkets, showing how each food illuminates wider histories.
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White-collar blues
White-Collar Blues follows the Turkish members of the global elite workforce as they are selected into, survive within, and opt out of coveted employment at transnational corporations.
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Womanpriest
This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary, especially given the ongoing sex-abuse scandal, The Roman Catholic Womanpriests (RCWP) looks to r...
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Women and partisan art
Cultural production by and about Yugoslav and Carinthian women partisans during WWII: an unparalleled example of engaged art.
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Women strikers occupy chain stores, win big
The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.
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Workers play time (vol 1)
Seven plays bring to life workers' struggles through the ages, keeping the tradition of political theatre alive and kicking.
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Working
Studs Terkel’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives—and the inspiration for Barack Obama’s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century“Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [Working] he...
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Working-class politics in the german revolution
An authoritative and engaging political biography of one of the most important, yet largely unknown, leaders of the German revolution.
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Worldly afterlives
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world’s population and territory. In the mid-1800s, the British government began building an elaborate...
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Writ in water
This book views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It reveals how this colorless, tasteless, and odorless substance has made such an impact on our bodies and our souls.
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Write like a man
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included w...
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Xenakis – back to the roots
This book includes contributions by companions of Xenakis and renowned experts in Xenakis research with studies in philology of electroacoustic music.
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Yesterday
The first major account of this transformative period in the history of Great BritainBetween 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism. Thatcher’s legacy was slowly ...
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»gold fever« and women
Sigrid Schönfelder discusses three healthcare providers within the social reform movement to illustrate the transformative power of the American West.
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»truth« and fiction
Many influential conspiracy theories originated in Eastern Europe. This volume analyzes the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well as its relationship with representations of the present in Eastern European cultures and literatures.
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