Illicit monogamy

Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research, Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a b...

Illness and culture in the postmodern age

We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era—roughly the period since World War II—as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring thes...

Illuminations on market street

San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. He finds himself working in...

Illusions about russia

A sharp critique of Germany’s long-standing “Russia complex,” Jörg Himmelreich traces how fascination with Russia—from Gerhard Schröder to Angela Merkel—fueled strategic misjudgments, energy dependence, and Europe’s current security crisis. A provocative reassessment of Western policy toward Vlad...

Illusions of control

Drawing on extensive field research and hundreds of interviews with stakeholders, Erica L. Gaston unpacks the challenges of attempting to control proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Illusions of progress

Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicl...

Illusions of security

The government is spying on us. Here's how, and what we can do about it.

Illusory dwellings

Essays on the nature, creation, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, springing from the author’s experiences in Kyoto.

Illustrated introduction to latin epigraphy

This is a much-needed textbook for students of epigraphy and an up-to-date reference work for scholars. Central to the work are its photos. Professor Gordon presents 100 Latin inscriptions arranged in chronological order and illustrated by the best available photographs. The inscriptions, which r...

Illustrations of the logic of science

Charles S. Peirce’s Illustrations of the Logic of Science is an early work in the philosophy of science and the official birthplace of pragmatism. It contains Peirce’s two most influential papers: “The Fixation of Belief” and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” as well as discussions on the theory of ...

Illyria (tcg edition)

Playwright Richard Nelson reveals a forgotten chapter of the history of New York’s Public Theater.

Image and imagination in mongolian buddhism

This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on previously unexamined writings and artworks to shed new light on the intricate interrelationships that define this tradition.

Image and insight

Image and pilgrimage in christian culture

First published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and sustaining Christian pilgrimage. The book examines two major aspects of pilgrimage practice: the significan...

Image brokers

How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeyne...

Image graphics for small takeout shops and food trucks

Image, icon, economy

The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images wi...

Imagery and gis

Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery shows how imagery can be integrated successfully into GIS maps and analysis.

Images and empires

Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa—mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and cu...

Images and objects of russia's war against ukraine

How do art, infrastructures, material culture, and media respond to and contest the Russo-Ukrainian War?

Images from the endgame

Rare photos from the race to conquer Central Asia.

Images of a queen

Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-Century Literature explores the extensive body of literature that emerged in response to the life and legacy of Mary Queen of Scots between 1554 and 1603. This study aims to provide both a historical analysis of the literary works and a bibliographical ...

Images on the move

This edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move—ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media.

Imaginal politics

Chiara Bottici brings fresh perspective to the formation of political and power relationships and the paradox of a world rich in imagery yet seemingly devoid of imagination. She identifies the imaginal's critical role in powering representative democracies and its amplification through globalizat...

Imaginaries of migration

How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany.

Imaginary communities

Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-centu...

Imaginary menagerie

Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent dispatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor than by wild conceits, semantic leaps, and startling juxtapositions, these are poems...

Imagination

Imagination is an outstanding contribution to a notoriously elusive and confusing subject. It skillfully interrelates problems in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism, tracing the evolution of the concept of imagination from Hume and Kant in the eighteenth century t...

Imagination

In less than a century, South Korea has remarkably transformed its image from one of the world's poorest nations to a center of global influence. Not just one but a series of so-called modern miracles transformed the country into an exceptional case of national image-making and image-shifting. In...

Imaginative geographies of algerian violence

The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond. In the years following, the violence of 1990s Algeria has become a central case study in new theories of civil conflict and terrorism after th...

Imagine a garden

Illustrated with stunning cut paper art, these seven poetic vignettes capture true stories of courage, hope, and resilience from around the world.In Imagine A Garden, award-winning children's author Rina Singh shares seven real-life stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their ...

Imagine being more afraid of freedom than slavery

An incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever.“if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a sermon/let it be my granddaddy’s sermon/my grandmother’s foottapping/steady rocking/choir singing” —from "It Is Not a New Age"First published in 1998, Imagine Being More Afraid of ...

Imagine no religion: the autobiography of blase bonpane

Imagine there's no country

A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a significant decline in costs of transportation, communication, and production; considerably improved intercountry competitiveness; and broke down trade and cultural barriers among countries. The concept of a sovereign nation ha...

Imagine us, the swarm

Winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of voices, forms, and approaches to confront loneliness, silence, and death.

Imagined economies – real fictions

The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, recent austerity measures, and the Brexit referendum a step further by showing how a common denominator of these dynamics is underlying ideas of “the economy.” Each author identifies a facet of Britain’s imagined economies.

Imagined environments

Casting light across the US-Mexico borderlands, Carlos Alonso Nugent reveals the region’s “imagined environments”—the frameworks through which its human groups have represented, related to, and resided in their more-than-human worlds. While these imagined environments can feel immersive and even ...

Imagined geographies

In 1984 Czech writer Milan Kundera published his essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” in the New York Review of Books, which established the framework for disputes about the space “between East and West” for the following thirty years. Even today, the echo of those debates is still audible in sp...

Imagined histories

This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the la...

Imagined masculinities

A landmark study of men and men's roles in the modern Middle East.

Imaging disaster

Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation—the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923—this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural res...

Imaging the scenes of war

In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its c...

Imagining ageing

What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of aging and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.