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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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Life after manzanar
From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement."Life After Manzanar explores the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly impris...
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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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Love for sale
From the Whore of Babylon to Pretty Woman, the exchange of sex for money is often cited as the oldest profession. Now, eminent historian Nils Johan Ringdal delivers a magisterial, extremely readable world history of this most malignedand most persistentform of human commerce. Beginning with the...
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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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Marxism and historical practice (vol. ii)
Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years
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Marxism and the oppression of women
Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.
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Material cultures of psychiatry
In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry as a complex entanglement where power is permanently negoti...
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Materials of culture
This book calls for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability.
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Mayor 1%
Lydersen lambasts Chicago's nationally recognized mayor for his obedient endorsement of the devastating austerity agenda set forth by the one-percent.
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Mediating geographic knowledge
Mediating geography, shaping a nation: how U.S. geographical societies produced, circulated, and legitimized knowledge in turn-of-the-century America.
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Medieval tastes
Italy’s best-known food historian travels back to the birth of “modern” cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our own. Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—and details how food transformed from a simple staple to a s...
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Memories
The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of modern feminism.
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Mixing methods
This book focusses on driving innovation and conceptualising the humanities in the 21st century.
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Mo(ve)ments of resistance
In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994–1996). The theo...
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Modern things on trial
Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam’...
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Modernity and culture
Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way...
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Monsterland
Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from? In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journey to discover more about the monsters we’ve invented, lurking in the dark and the wild place...
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Monstrous bitch
How an ancient myth about a sexually voracious, baby-slaying, loudmouthed demoness became the defining misogynistic archetype of Western civilizationFor as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provides an eng...
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Moving the mountain
Florence Luscomb campaigned for suffrage early in the century and worked for social change. Ella Baker was a civil rights organizer for over fifty years. Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a lifelong farmworker, was the first woman to organize in the fields for the United Farmworkers. These vivid oral hist...
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Mud sweeter than honey
Winner of the Polityka Passport Award Winner of the Kościelski AwardA revelatory oral history of the people who suffered, rebelled, and survived under the secretive dictatorship of Enver Hoxha in Albania, one of the twentieth century’s most brutal and Kafkaesque regimes, from award-winning Polish...
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Music – media – history
This volume considers audiovisual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors challenge the linear perspective of music history based on canonical authority.
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Must we divide history into periods?
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate ...
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Mutuality in el barrio
The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York’s deeply-rooted organizationsOn any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service’s bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers w...
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Naked at lunch
"A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world." —The Seattle TimesPeople have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual s...
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Names and naming in early modern germany
Unique exploration of theSocial History of Nomenclature (socio-onomastics) Interdisciplinary and Archival Explores the Intentions of the Namers
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Narrative mechanics
What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and...
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Narratives and comparisons
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing.
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Narratives crossing boundaries
This transdisciplinary compendium covers: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior.
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Nation-states
Davidson argues that a Marxist understanding of the meaning of contemporary nation-states must begin from the inseparable connections between them.
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