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Postsocialist landscapes
Formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations while remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, describing the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left...
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Power and possession in the russian revolution
A history that reframes the Bolsheviks’ unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917 The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia’s governing authority but also the property order on which it stood. The upheaval sparked waves of dispossession that rapidly...
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Power lines
How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed i...
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Practices of comparing
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration.
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Professor risley and the imperial japanese troupe
The true tale of an American impresario, Japanese acrobats, and a circus tour adventure; richly illustrated.
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Programming creativity
Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understand...
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Property values
A wide-ranging history of American land ownership, from westward expansion to the suburban housing crisisFrom its very beginnings, the United States has defined itself by its relationship to land. Settlers saw the continent as the raw material for building a prosperous life while their leaders vi...
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Property wrongs
Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.
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Prophets unarmed
Drawing on numerous oral history interviews with survivors, this study of Chinese Trotskyism is exhaustive and groundbreaking.
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Protestants abroad
They sought to transform the globe and ended up transforming modern AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children crit...
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Queer jewish lives between central europe and mandatory palestine
This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870–1960). The first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria, and Palestine, and the second introduces queer biographies between Europe and P...
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Race and secularism in america
This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Contributors from a range of disciplines expose secularism’s prohibitive practices in all facets of American society a...
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Race is about politics
How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more important than ever to understand race and rac...
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Radical unionism
Though often seen as opposing ideas, Darlington engagingly traces the entwined legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement.
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Ravenna
A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman EmpireAt the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Cathol...
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Realms of royalty
This collection introduces new directions in researching contemporary European monarchies by suggesting theoretical approaches to recent developments and new perspectives on royal families' interactions with their subjects. With its interdisciplinary analyses, the book is a timely answer to the r...
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Rebel alliances
A philosophical perspective on anarchism in Britain today.
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Rebel women between the wars
An original history of 13 women from the interwar years, who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations from mountaineering, to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free ...
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Reckoning with race
Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to...
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Recounting deviance
How do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented?The articles present examples of the recounting of deviance by using, amongst others, sources suc...
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Red meat republic
How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food systemBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly ...
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Red petrograd
A deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia’s revolutionary year.
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Reform, revolution and direct action amongst british miners
In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.
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Refugees, refuge, and human displacement
This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
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Representation
Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline.
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Representations of global civility
By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific in English travel writing during the long eighteenth century, Sascha Klement demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconne...
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Resilience stories
Today, “resilience” is among the most repeated buzzwords. Hamideh Mahdiani challenges a reductionistic understanding by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience.
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Resist everything except temptation
A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that propelled his art.
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Rethinking infrastructure across the humanities
This book demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.
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Rethinking the other in antiquity
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature...
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Returns of marxism
Inspiring and thoroughly researched collection of contemporary Marxist essays that engage the struggle of our times.
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Revolution domesticated
Drawing on Mao-era family letters, grassroots archives, and oral history, this book shows how revolutionary austerity transformed urban families and shaped China’s transition to a new economic order.
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Revolution within
Book argues that the social reform movement in Kerala contributed to the growth of progressive democratic movements there.
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Revolution, defeat and theoretical underdevelopment
A wide-ranging and critical examination of twentieth-century revolutionary movements across four major ideological traditions and countries.
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Revolutionary rehearsals in the neoliberal age
This indispensable volume surveys revolutionary upheavals across the world between 1989 and 2019, drawing lessons for theorizing revolution today.
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Revolutionary teamsters
Engaging and well researched, Revolutionary Teamsters is the story of a strike that sparked the labor upsurge of the 1930s
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Reworking the computer age
A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.
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Ring around the maple
A sociocultural history of children and childhood in Canada from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. It approaches these subjects both thematically and chronologically, with attention to the ways in which world historic events—the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, the ...
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Salt
For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word "salary"), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, and Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preser...
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Salvador puig antich
A martyr and the movement that risked it all to bring down Spain's fascist dictator.
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Scoundrels and shirkers
This book integrates a sophisticated analysis of contemporary poverty with a full historical account of capitalism.
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Scouting and scoring
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring...
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Sex and secularism
How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-statesJoan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, she challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic—that seculari...
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Sex in the archives
This book is an experiment in writing an American sexual history, spanning the spectrum of queer, trans, and the allegedly ‘normal’. The sexual histories in this book are those where pornography and sexual research are indistinguishable; where personal obsession becomes tomorrow’s archive.
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Sexuality, family planning, and reproduction
The contributors to this book reflect on the history of sexuality, family planning, and reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Siegfried the wrestler
Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.
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Sister of the road
Long before Jack Kerouac went on the road, Boxcar Bertha was riding the rails.
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Size matters – understanding monumentality across ancient civilizations
Bringing together researchers from fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches to momumentality in both theoretical contributions and case studies.
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Slavery and the jews of medieval egypt
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a n...
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