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Chinatown, honolulu
This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.
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Choosing buddhism
Why has there been an upsurge in Canadians converting to Buddhism in recent decades and what does it mean to lead a Buddhist life in contemporary Canada? This book answers these questions and more athrough life stories richly complemented by images and contextual readings.
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Chronos
In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial turning points in our relationship to time. François Hartog considers the genealogy of Western temporalities, examining the order of times and the divisions of time into epochs.
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Cities of gods
How cities and religions have shaped each other through historyIn Cities of Gods, Jörg Rüpke offers an entirely new vision of the history of religion—one in which religion has shaped cities and cities have shaped religion. Rüpke shows how religious actions and ideas have produced cities since urb...
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City on fire
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a ...
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Clara zetkin
Essays and speeches from 1889–1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.
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Class war, usa
An engaging collection of little known stories of working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.
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Class, culture, and the agrarian myth
Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth.
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Comfort in contemporary culture
Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cozy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of “getting out of your comfort zone” attest. This volume is the first to investigate “comfort” as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture.
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Coming out of partition
Exploring the category of ‘refugee women’ as it emerged in the events of the Bengal Partition, the book claims that they have not only played an important role in shaping women’s movement but also have been responsible for the radical reorientation of social lives in Bengal as they rebuild and re...
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Coming to terms with a crisis
This book explores how various actors reacted to this pandemic through specific forms of representation and storytelling in popular culture, public discourse, and science communication.
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Common preservation
As world leaders eschew cooperation to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown, and other threats to our survival, more and more people experience a pervasive sense of dread and despair. Is there anything we can do? What can put us on the course from mutual destruction to...
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Communalism
Let us not seize power, but doing away with it and return society to an organic community of noncoercive human relations. In this fascinating survey of communalism, Kenneth Rexroth takes readers from its prehistoric beginnings (the “primitive communism” of hunter-gatherer societies and neolithic ...
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Communards and other cultural histories
A wide-ranging collection of essays from Adrian Rifkin, covering cultural production, urbanism, and social conflict from a critical Marxist perspective.
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Communes and workers' control in venezuela
A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.
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Competition in the promised land
From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban spa...
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Comrades, not friends
The Revolutionary Front spoke the only language fascists understand: violence!The Revolutionary Front (RF), 2001–2015, was the most militant organization on the left in recent Swedish history. Staunchly working class, the first generation of RF members engaged in numerous street battles with ...
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Concepts of urban-environmental history
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. Concepts of Urban-Environmental History aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues that have shaped recent debates in the field.
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Conceptualizing the world
This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human e...
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Consumed nostalgia
Gary Cross reveals how consumed nostalgia shapes how we cope with accelerating change, unpacking the cultural dynamics that turn pop tunes into oldies and childhood toys into valuable commodities. By unmasking the character of modern nostalgia, Cross helps us better understand the rituals of reca...
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Continental strangers
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and...
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Conversations in the spirit
The collectors edition of Lex Hixon's interviews with prominent spiritual teachers Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Kalu Rinpoche, Swami Muktandananda, and more.
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Conversations with ambedkar
The book is a collection of ten public lectures that were delivered annually from 2009 to 2018 as part of the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Series, instituted by Ambedkar University Delhi.
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Creditworthy
In Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that commercial surveillance has played in monitoring Americans' economic lives.
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Crisis, movement, strategy
This edited volume grapples with the theoretical, analytical, and strategic questions posed by the recent experience of the radical left in Greece.
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Crossing the danube
A richly illustrated history that reveals how the peoples living along the Danube frontier helped transform the Roman EmpireCrossing the Danube offers a new account of the peoples who lived along Europe’s greatest river—the nearly 2,000-mile-long Danube—during the dramatic centuries leading up to...
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Culture^2
This essay collection is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theorie...
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Curating (post-)socialist environments
In which ways are environments (post)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post)socialist enactments or interventions?
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Darwin's origin of species
Charles Darwin’s foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling int...
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Days of dissent
Days of Dissent brims with defiance in recounting the rebellious history that has reshaped the United States and the world. With poetic fervor, journalist Gabriel San Román delves into the strikes and forgotten martyrs of the labor movement to expose the fetid underbelly of exploitation. In a sub...
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Decolonial keywords
Presents a set of keywords, concepts thar represent the importance in moving away from the intellectual shackles of colonial and neo-colonial experiences.
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Decolonization and humanism
This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies.
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Detroit: i do mind dying
Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.
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Digital methods in the humanities
This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools.
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Displacement and citizenship
This book seeks to explore the multiplicity of memories and experiences of belonging and exclusion in a range of societies that have been marked by displacement. The volume draws from the wide fields of literature, humanities, and social sciences to reflect on the questions of displacement and ci...
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Dixie be damned
"The South will rise again" has a whole new meaning.
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Doing cultural history
Doing Cultural History collects papers spanning the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries on topics including narrative structures in legal texts, masculinity and violence, and Scottish medieval history as well as religious theme parks and the perception of sorcery and false saintliness in early ...
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Doubled up
How sharing a home with extended family or friends serves as a crucial, but imperfect, private safety net for families with childrenMore than fifteen percent of US children—over eleven million—live in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. These households are even ...
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Downtown local
Tired of handwringing reports about “lost” and “disappearing” New York? These dispatches show a different side of the city—resilient and flourishing despite the naysayers and high rent. Like a modern-day Joseph Mitchell, Cometbus visits projectionists studying Chinese in their booths, prophets wh...
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Drawing and experiencing architecture
Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants.
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Dweller in shadows
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the gre...
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Ellis island
A dramatic, multi-vocal account of the personal agonies and ecstasies that played out within the walls of Ellis Island, as told by Poland’s greatest living journalist
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Embattled europe
A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many observers to argue that the EU’s best days are behind it. Over the past decade, ...
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Emotional imprints of war
Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted historical investigation into the role of emotions in dealing with consequences of World War II in the Netherlands.
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Emperor of japan
When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of...
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Empire city
As perhaps never before in its extraordinary history, New York has captured the American imagination. This major anthology brings together not only the best literary writing about New York—from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Paul Auster, and James Baldwin, among ...
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Empire of purity
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and ...
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