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The turbulent years
The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians.
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The universal baroque
A multi-disciplinary study of the notion of the baroque, using examples of music, art, visual culture, literature and architecture, revealing it to be a global phenomenon
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The uses of literacy in colonial australia
Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non-literary writings. It emphasises the Britishness of colonial society, without forgetting specifically Australian inflections of r...
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The voice of silence
The "Voice of Silence" is the personal story of an underground Hebrew teacher in the communist Soviet Union who was sentenced to prison after false claims by the KGB. He kept a hunger strike for 207 days to draw international solidarity. But his book is more than exotic memoir literature. It is a...
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The voice of the poor in the middle ages
They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the "working poor." Now, for the first time, the voices of the poor in the Middle Ages come to life in this moving book by historian Mark Cohen. A c...
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The way we lived
35th anniversary edition! Here, in their own words, Indigenous voices reclaim the narrative of California Indians.“Their stories, here brilliantly illuminated by Margolin's comments, contain beauty, humor, and wisdom.”—Harold Gilliam, San Francisco ChronicleBefore contact, California's Native peo...
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The west
A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined...
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The wordhord
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakersOld English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean Eng...
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The writer’s room
A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.” Writers ...
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The yellow rose
This volume studies the impact of racial stratification on Mexican Americans and Anglo residents in a majority Mexican American community. It examines economic effects in a one-crop economy and social disharmony between the groups, based on a 1969 survey, making it a rare complete Mexican America...
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Theory of water
Winner of the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for nonfiction A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force—water—through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing...
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This bell still rings
The autobiography of a courageous singer-songwriter, activist, and American icon."Barbara Dane is someone who is willing to follow her conscience. She is, if the term must be used, a hero."—Bob DylanA renowned folk, blues, and jazz singer who performed with some of the twentieth century’s most ce...
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Three stones make a wall
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology—from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is todayIn 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to te...
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Through a speculum that shines
A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomenological and critical historical tools, Wol...
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To the masses
The proceedings and resolutions of the third congress of the Communist International available in translation for the first time.
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Toward the united front
The proceedings of the last congress of the Communist International in which Lenin participated, now at last available in English
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Transatlantic russian jewishness
Yiddish speaking immigrants formed the milieu of the hugely successful socialist daily Forverts (Forward). Its editorial columns and bylined articles reflected and shaped the attitudes and values of its readership. Profound admiration of Russian literature and culture did not mitigate the writers...
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Trustworthy men
The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bish...
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Twilight of the dons
The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment outsi...
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Under crescent and cross
Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Chr...
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Under the socialist banner
A collection of all the resolutions adopted by Second International congresses during the movement 's revolutionary Marxist period of 1889-1912.
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Undivided rights
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.
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Using film as a source
A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.
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Utopianism for a dying planet
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crisesIn the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behav...
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Venice and the mongols
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval ageIn the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realizing the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers establi...
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Visions of empire
What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today’s increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire sh...
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Voyage into savage europe
In 1930, Avigdor Hameiri traveled through Eastern and Central Europe. Bolshevism and Fascism threatened and Europe was poised on a knife-edge. From the growing danger and confusion surrounding inter-war Europe, in prose at once compassionate and bitingly sarcastic, comes a sweeping account of Jew...
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War and an irish town
War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.
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War and revolution in catalonia, 1936-1939
This translation of a landmark study is the first monograph in English to focus on Catalonia during the Civil War.
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Watch my smoke
Eric Dickerson is the record-holder for most rushing yards in a season, and his prime was the best of any running back in NFL history. Yet an aura of negativity trailed him his entire career.
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Waterloo sunrise
A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. ...
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We are each other's liberation
A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other's Liberation envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics th...
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We cannot escape history
The latest collection of essays from the Deutscher Prize winning Marxist scholar, Neil Davidson.
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Weaponized whiteness
This study of of white supremacy and white identity politics is thorough, insightful, and sociologically grounded.
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Welcoming ruin
The first full-length study of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and its afterlives.
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Western europe’s democratic age
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provid...
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What is history for?
“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake ne...
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Wherever there's a fight, 10th anniversary edition
Ten years after the initial publication of the first-ever account of the struggle to develop and protect social justice in a bellwether state, the award-winning Wherever There’s a Fight is as relevant as ever for “navigating the slogan-riddled civil rights issues of the day” (Publishers Weekly, s...
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Without permission
A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of Israel, undergoes a challenging and dangerous sea voyage and is imprisoned for that effort, and is released and returns to build a bazooka plant in Haifa during the Israeli War for In...
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Women in the factory, 1880-1930
A rich and detailed picture, across Britain and many other European countries, of the nature of women's factory work, the problems which arose and how women factory inspectors understood and reacted to the problems.Based on extensive original archival research both in Britain and in many European...
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Women strikers occupy chain stores, win big
The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.
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Working-class politics in the german revolution
An authoritative and engaging political biography of one of the most important, yet largely unknown, leaders of the German revolution.
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Worldly afterlives
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world’s population and territory. In the mid-1800s, the British government began building an elaborate...
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Write like a man
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included w...
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Writing themselves into history
A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthand.In the early years of California’s statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (1834–1869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (1848–1910) had front-row seats to the unfolding of the Golden State’s h...
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