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Rebel island
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle—and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smalle...
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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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Situationist international anthology
The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off,...
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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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Slouch
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” ph...
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Sncc
Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important civil rights groups in American history.
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Something happened
In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. d...
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Spaces for shaping the nation
This book examines the various possibilities of museum education.
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Speaking with the dead in early america
In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation ...
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Spectres of masculinity
How do ghost stories of the Victorian and Edwardian periods challenge and reframe ideas of masculinity?
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Stanislaw brzozowski and the migration of ideas
As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. The essays in this volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski’s writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point.
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Status in classical athens
Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of s...
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Storming heaven
For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded “the most dangerous man in America”); for Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters it fueled the n...
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Story of the iron column
A passionate history of fighting against all oddsthe legendary war against fascism and capitalism in Spain.
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Strabo's geography
A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in th...
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Strange blood
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion was tested as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia, and proposed as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. This book ventures into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, laboratories and wars, to e...
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Striking the university
This is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand, and join, the growing movement fighting for the future of higher education. In recent years, higher education has become one of the most militant sectors of the labor movement. From graduate workers to faculty, from the US to Brita...
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Studies on pre-capitalist modes of production
This collection represents a wide-ranging and important new contribution to the historical debate of how to understand pre-capitalist societies.
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Surviving rome
A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived throu...
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