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In my time of dying
An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mo...
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In pursuit of privilege
Extending from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a world guarded against outsiders. Clifton Hood shows elites' part in the larger story of the city through class conflict and their role in New York's cultural and economic founda...
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In search of israel
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the nation that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ...
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In the matter of nat turner
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, a...
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In the steps of rosa luxemburg
Long maligned by scholars of Communist history, this volume lets Paul Levi's writings during the German Revolution speak for themselves.
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Independence hall in american memory
A chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, reissued on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, with a new preface updating the constantly evolving public perception of Independence HallIndependence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. ...
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Industry and intelligence
The conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history. He takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental dev...
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Intellectual property
The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient RomeSlaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republic. Though their work went largely uncredited, they fulfilled vital roles as editors, researc...
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Internment refugee camps
The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical con...
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Interwar crossroads
Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today.
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Islam and gender
Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women's rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the implementers of the law have faced the social realities of women's lives and aspirations, positive changes have gradu...
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Jacob moleschott – a transnational biography
Laura Meneghello's biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott explores processes of knowledge circulation, transnational mobility, and the role of translation in nineteenth-century science. She sheds new light on the history of materialism in the natural sciences and the deep enta...
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Japan and imperialism, 1853-1945
Revised and Expanded Second Edition. This lively narrative tells the story of Japan’s experience with imperialism and colonialism, looking first at Japan’s responses to Western threats in the nineteenth century, then at Japan’s activities as Asia’s only imperialist power. Using a series of human ...
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Jewish emancipation
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed...
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Jews and their roman rivals
How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals ...
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John fante's ask the dust
This collection gathers a diverse set of critical, personal, and artistic reflections on the trials and epiphanies of Fante’s bio-fictive hero, Arturo Bandini, as he makes his way through the dust and dread of 1939 Los Angeles. As his quest for love and compassion turns to ethnic questioning and...
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Judge thy neighbor
From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of instituti...
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Killing the dead
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epi...
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Know your remedies
A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilizat...
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Kosher usa
Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life a...
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Labor in the age of finance
From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power...
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Language city
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planetHalf of all 7...
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Leaflets of the russian revolution
New translations of the most important documents from socialist parties, soviets, and worker militias in Petrograd during 1917
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Left-wing melancholia
Uncovering the melancholic tradition of the global left.
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Lessons for our struggle
The healthy growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement depends on a proper understanding of past struggles.
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Liberalism
A short history of liberalism since the 1820s, one rooted in practical politics rather than abstract theorising. Liberalism is shown to be best understood as a political tradition that has been profoundly shaped by Britain’s unique and evolving political culture and by political realities.
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Listen!
An examination on how listening shapes who we are, weaves the world and grounds our movements for justice and liberation.
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Lives of houses
Notable writers—including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow—celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape...
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Living at night in times of pandemic
This book offers perspectives on night studies in France and Germany and the techno scene from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
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Lone voyagers
Using biography, autobiography, journals, and letters, Lone Voyagers offers portraits of seven women who were the first of their sex to work as faculty and deans at coeducational universities in the United States and Canada. Most historians of higher education have focused their attention on wome...
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Looking for the proletariat
The first ever English-language history of the influential French revolutionary group Socialisme ou Barbarie.
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Lost in ideology
Lost in Ideology maps the ideological terrain of the past 200 years and asks whether the current disorientation engulfing the world’s liberal democracies is in no small part ideological in origin.
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Lust on trial
Amy Werbel provides a colorful journey through professional censor Anthony Comstock’s career that doubles as a history of post-Civil War America’s risqué visual and sexual culture. Lust on Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the complica...
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Magazines and the making of america
From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once ...
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Magdalena coline
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named ...
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Making money in the early middle ages
An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval EuropeBetween the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the ...
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Making women's history
The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.
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Mapping black europe
Black communities have made major contributions to Europe for centuries, yet their achievements largely remain unrecognized. In this groundbreaking book, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue. They discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and...
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Marikana
In-depth account of the Marikana massacre, based on the voices of the miners and their families themselves, from the build up to the strike to attempts to hold the state to account and its lasting significance.In August 2012 the South African police - at the encouragement of mining capital, and w...
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Maritime poetics
In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. This volume argues that contemporary artistic practices and critical poetics trace an alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present so...
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Marx after marx
Revisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.
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Marxism and criminology: a history of criminal selectivity
A thought-provoking survey of the lessons criminologists should learn from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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Marxism and historical practice (vol. i)
Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years.
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