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Crisis, movement, strategy
This edited volume grapples with the theoretical, analytical, and strategic questions posed by the recent experience of the radical left in Greece.
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Crossing the danube
A richly illustrated history that reveals how the peoples living along the Danube frontier helped transform the Roman EmpireCrossing the Danube offers a new account of the peoples who lived along Europe’s greatest river—the nearly 2,000-mile-long Danube—during the dramatic centuries leading up to...
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Culture and communication
Yuri Lotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. This approachable collection of translations provides a primer to his vast intellectual legacy with a choice of works that address contemporary concerns such as gender, memory,...
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Detroit: i do mind dying
Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.
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Diary of bergen-belsen
The sole surviving diary of a Holocaust resistance fighter, written from inside the Nazi concentration camps.
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Digital culture shock
How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology designRobots that encroach on your personal space, baffling emojis, a chatbot that gives you an answer that seems terribly rude—does any of this sound familiar? If so, you may kn...
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Doppelgangbanger
Award-winning poet Cortney Lamar Charleston interrogates the intersections of race, masculinity, and politics through the lens of hip-hop.
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Doubled up
How sharing a home with extended family or friends serves as a crucial, but imperfect, private safety net for families with childrenMore than fifteen percent of US children—over eleven million—live in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. These households are even ...
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Dweller in shadows
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the gre...
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Early modern jewry
A compelling history of the early modern Jewish experienceEarly Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europ...
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Embattled europe
A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many observers to argue that the EU’s best days are behind it. Over the past decade, ...
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Embedded generations
An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Grounding her account in the analysis of 260 life history narratives and r...
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Empire of purity
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and ...
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Empire of salons
A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points ins...
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Empires and walls
Usually viewed as a symbol of imperial might, Chaichian argues that Walls better fit as signs of an empire's decline.
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Entitled
An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s Amer...
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Escape from rome
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best th...
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Ethiopia in theory
A wide-ranging and compelling account of the interplay between social theory and social change in the Ethiopian student movement, and its enduring impact.
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Europe since 1989
An award-winning history of the transformation of Europe between 1989 and todayIn this award-winning book, Philipp Ther provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe, offering a sweeping narrative filled with vivid details and memorable stories. Europe since 1989 shows how liberali...
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Europe without borders
The contested creation of free movement—for people and goods—in the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders wi...
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Every man's home a castle
The emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public school curricula. In Every Man’s Home...
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Everything was forever, until it was no more
“[An] extraordinary book.”—Brian Eno • “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”—Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.”—Slavoj Žižek • “Extraordinary and brilliant.”—Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisationA ...
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Evidence for hope
A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open ...
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Eyewitnesses to the russian revolution
The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.
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Fair and affordable housing in the us
An analysis of the origins, nature, and direction of attacks lodged against fair and affordable housing policy in the U.S.
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Famous for a time
Delving into Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation’s complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation.
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Following franco
This book interrogates the interrelationship between culture and politics during the Spanish transition to democracy. Drawing on both high and popular culture, it critically interrogates the stakes of the Transition and reveals how its consequences continue to inform political debate.
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Food, eating and identity in early medieval england
A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fr...
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For love of the prophet
For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains of both religion and politics. Yet, while there has been much discussion of the idea and ideals of the Islamic stat...
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For the good of the nation
Through an innovative network of local associations, Jewish leaders in interwar Poland cooperated to aid orphaned children. Their work exemplifies the goal to build a Jewish future. Translations of sources from Yiddish and Polish describe the lives of Jewish children and the tireless efforts to b...
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For the many
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. ...
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Foundations
An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private...
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Fraud
A comprehensive history of fraud in America, from the early nineteenth century to the subprime mortgage crisisIn America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of entrepreneurial freedom complicates the task of distinguishing salesmanship from deceit. In this s...
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From #blacklivesmatter to black liberation (expanded second edition)
This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.
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From caligari to hitler
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines Germ...
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From the vanguard to the margins
Mark Pittaway was the pre-eminent historian of contemporary Hungary. This volume collects his most important work.
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Gaming the world
The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow th...
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Gender and the race for space
This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on ...
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George berkeley
A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity C...
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Getting respect
A comparative look at how discrimination is experienced by stigmatized groups in the United States, Brazil, and IsraelRacism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group b...
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Global white nationalism
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.
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Gobsmacked!
A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms—for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America—from French fries to Awesome, man!—are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Bri...
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Handbook on teaching social issues
This Handbook guides teachers in addressing social issues with a focus on social justice. It emphasizes issues-centered social studies, encouraging in-depth investigation of persistent social issues to enhance social understanding and active participation. Contributors include leading experts in ...
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