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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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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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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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Tabemasho! let's eat!
Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.
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Television's moment
It reconstructs TV reception in history (very rare, if not unique). It develops new methods to reconstruct historical reception processes. It is a three-country international comparison (very rare). Its main argument is about TV’s impact on whole societies (also rare; media studi...
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Tell it to the world
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity.
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Ten years that shook the city
The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.
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The adventures of the communist manifesto
A new, definitive, translation of the Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' Communist Mannifesto by American socialist luminary, Hal Draper.
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The aesthetics of collective agency
This book explores the aesthetic forms that collective agency takes in the twenty-first century across a variety of media.
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The age of questions
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interroga...
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The agrarian seeds of empire
An innovative discussion of the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US state building between 1840 and 1980.
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The american revolution considered as a social movement
A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ. Franklin Jameson’s The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was among the first books to look at American history through the lens of social change. This pioneering work ar...
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The american road to capitalism
Most historians assume that American capitalism was either imported or the result of market expansion. Post proves otherwise.
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The american socialist movement 1897-1912
“This is the epic story of the struggle to build a mass socialist movement in ragtime America. Kipnis was a brilliant historian, and this is his enduring gift to activists." —Mike Davis A new edition of the out-of-print classic.
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The anthropology of white supremacy
An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of...
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The arabic freud
The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thoughtIn 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ‘Arabi—al-la-shu‘ur—as a translation for Si...
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The axe and the oath
A sweeping account of what medieval life was like for ordinary peopleIn The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly...
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The black death
This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.
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The black power mixtape
A provocative mixtape, mash-up, and treasure trove of never-before-seen images and interviews of the Black Power movement, with contemporary reflections
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The blue shirts
Fascism, states Jean-Frédéric Légaré Tremblay, is a kind of spectre that comes back to haunt us in many forms.” Fifty years after Adrien Arcand’s death, his legacy continues to challenge us. How could such ideas threatening to minorities have flourished in our presumably inclusive society?
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The body and society
First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-i...
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The bolsheviks come to power
A classic work depicting the early months of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction for the Revolution's centenary.
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The brazilian amazonia in change i
Looking back: The Brazilian Amazon in the 1970s.
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The british slave trade and public memory
How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questi...
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The burr conspiracy
A panoramic look at the early American republic through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This book explores the political ...
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The city-state of boston
A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of li...
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The class strikes back
The Class Strikes Back examines case studies of twenty-first-century workers’ struggles from both the Global North and South, highlighting the stories of workers fighting to organize and join democratic and independent unions.
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The closet
A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet—and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged set...
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The columbia guide to america in the 1960s
The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This b...
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The communist international and u.s. communism, 1919 - 1929
For most commentators the Comintern’s role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.
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The company of strangers
The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the ...
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The conqueror's gift
The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late AntiquityEthnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and it lets the inhabitants of the empire, esp...
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The construction of social health systems
How to tell the history of health social systems with the help of systems’ self-reference and Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory.
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The crisis of multiculturalism in europe
A history of modern European cultural pluralism, its current crisis, and its uncertain futureIn 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But ...
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The crowd in the early middle ages
The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and importance of the crowd did not disappear in ...
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The dictionary wars
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English The Dictionary Wars recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson’s 1...
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