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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siecle Radicalism, And the Politics of Friendshipby Leela GandhiISBN 0822337150 (0-8223-3715-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Age Of Beloveds: Love And The Beloved In Early-Modern Ottoman And European Culture And Societyby Walter G. Andrews, Mehmet KalpaklISBN 0822334240 (0-8223-3424-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Age of the World Target: Selfreferentiality in War, Theory, And Comparative Workby Rey ChowISBN 0822337444 (0-8223-3744-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Albert Einsteinby Stephanie Sammartino McPhersonISBN 0822503506 (0-8225-0350-6)
Hardcover, Lerner Pub Group
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Amelia Earhartby Jane SutcliffeISBN 0822503964 (0-8225-0396-4)
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The American 1890s: A Cultural Readerby Susan Harris Smith, Melanie DawsonISBN 0822325128 (0-8223-2512-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader'Book summary:America at the last fin de siècle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader is a wide-ranging anthology of essays, criticism, and fiction first printed in periodicals during those last remarkable years of the nineteenth century, a decade commonly referred to as the golden age of periodical culture.[via]
To depict the many changes taking place in the United States at this time, Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson have drawn from an eclectic range of periodicals: elite monthlies such as Scribners, Harpers, and the Atlantic Monthly; political magazines such as the North American Review and Forum; magazines for general readers such as Cosmopolitan and McClures; and specialized publications including the Chatauquan, Outing, and Colored American Magazine. Authors represented in the collection include Andrew Carnegie, Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Stephen Crane,
W. E. B. DuBois, Jacob Riis, and Frederick Jackson Turner. A general introduction to the period, a brief contextualizing essay for each selection, and a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources are provided as well. In examining and debating the decades momentous political and social developments, the essays, editorials, and stories in this anthology reflect a constantly shifting culture at a time of internal turmoil, unprecedented political expansion, and a renaissance of modern ideas and new technologies.
Bringing together a carefully chosen selection of primary sources, The American 1890s presents a remarkable variety of viewsnostalgic, protective, imperialist, progressive, egalitarian, and democraticheld by American citizens a century ago.More editions of The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader:
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Culturesby Ann CvetkovichISBN 0822330881 (0-8223-3088-1)
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Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, And the Writing of Historyby Antoinette BurtonISBN 082233688X (0-8223-3688-X)
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Archives of Empire: The Scramble for Africaby Barbara Harlow, Mia CarterISBN 0822331896 (0-8223-3189-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archives of Empire: The Scramble for Africa'Book summary:A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism in the ranks of the military, the corridors of political power, the lobbies of missionary organizations, the halls of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of trading companies, the editorial offices of major newspapers, and far-flung parts of the empire itself. Focusing on a particular region and historical period, each volume in Archives of Empire is organized into sections preceded by brief introductions. Documents including mercantile company charters, parliamentary records, explorers accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by timelines, maps, and bibligraphies. Unique resources for teachers and students, these volumes reveal the complexities of nineteenth-century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the global markets of the twenty-first century.[via]While focusing on the expansion of the British Empire, The Scramble for Africa illuminates the intense nineteenth-century contest among European nations over Africas land, people, and resources. Highlighting the 1885 Berlin Conference in which Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy partitioned Africa among themselves, this collection follows British conflicts with other nations over different regions as well as its eventual challenge to Leopold of Belgiums rule of the Congo. The reports, speeches, treatises, proclamations, letters, and cartoons assembled here include works by Henry M. Stanley, David Livingstone, Joseph Conrad, G. W. F. Hegel, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and Arthur Conan Doyle. A number of pieces highlight the proliferation of companies chartered to pursue Africas gold, diamonds, and oilparticularly Cecil J. Rhodess British South Africa Company and Frederick Lugards Royal Niger Company. Other documents describe debacles on the continentsuch as the defeat of General Gordon in Khartoum and the Anglo-Boer Warand the criticism of imperial maneuvers by proto-human rights activists including George Washington Williams, Mark Twain, Olive Schreiner, and E.D. Morel.
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The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politicsby Gabriela Nouzeilles, Graciela R. MontaldoISBN 082232914X (0-8223-2914-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics'Book summary:Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentinain all its complexityhas often been obscured by variations of the "like Europe and not like the rest of Latin America" cliché. The Argentina Reader deliberately breaks from that viewpoint. This essential introduction to Argentinas history, culture, and society provides a richer, more comprehensive look at one of the most paradoxical of Latin American nations: a nation that used to be among the richest in the world, with the largest middle class in Latin America, yet one that entered the twenty-first century with its economy in shambles and its citizenry seething with frustration.[via]This diverse collection brings together songs, articles, comic strips, scholarly essays, poems, and short stories. Most pieces are by Argentines. More than forty of the texts have never before appeared in English. The Argentina Reader contains photographs from Argentinas National Archives and images of artwork by some of the countrys most talented painters and sculptors. Many selections deal with the history of indigenous Argentines, workers, women, blacks, and other groups often ignored in descriptions of the country. At the same time, the book includes excerpts by or about such major political figures as José de San Martín and Juan Perón. Pieces from literary and social figures virtually unknown in the United States appear alongside those by more well-known writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, and Julio Cortázar.
The Argentina Reader covers the Spanish colonial regime; the years of nation building following Argentinas independence from Spain in 1810; and the sweeping progress of economic growth and cultural change that made Argentina, by the turn of the twentieth century, the most modern country in Latin America. The bulk of the collection focuses on the twentieth century: on the popular movements that enabled Peronism and the revolutionary dreams of the 1960s and 1970s; on the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 and the accompanying culture of terror and resistance; and, finally, on the contradictory and disconcerting tendencies unleashed by the principles of neoliberalism and the new global economy. The book also includes a list of suggestions for further reading.
The Argentina Reader is an invaluable resource for those interested in learning about Argentine history and culture, whether in the classroom or in preparation for travel in Argentina.
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproductionby Jonathan SterneISBN 082233013X (0-8223-3013-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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A provocative history of sound, The Audible Past challenges theoretical commonplaces such as the philosophical privilege of the speaking subject, the visual bias in theories of modernity, and static descriptions of nature. It will interest those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, the new musicology, and the history of technology.
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Battling for Hearts And Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988by Steve J. SternISBN 0822338416 (0-8223-3841-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race And Freedom, 1850-1910by Daphne A. BrooksISBN 0822337223 (0-8223-3722-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Bodily Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement In England, 1853-1907by Nadja DurbachISBN 0822334232 (0-8223-3423-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959by Eric SchaeferISBN 0822323745 (0-8223-2374-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803by Kimberly S. HangerISBN 0822318989 (0-8223-1898-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Squareby Joseph ZiemianISBN 0822507579 (0-8225-0757-9)
Hardcover, Lerner Pub Group
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Closet Devotionsby Richard RambussISBN 0822321971 (0-8223-2197-1)
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Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africaby Hildi HendricksonISBN 0822317915 (0-8223-1791-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimarby Ellen KennedyISBN 0822332434 (0-8223-3243-4)
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The Convict And the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism And Resistance in the Caribbeanby Richard PriceISBN 0822338238 (0-8223-3823-8)
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Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio And the Chilean State, 1906-2001by Florencia E. MallonISBN 0822335743 (0-8223-3574-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, And National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Boisby Caroline Field LevanderISBN 0822338726 (0-8223-3872-6)
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Criminal Manby Cesare Lombroso, Mary Gibson, Nicole Hahn Rafter, Mark SeymourISBN 0822337231 (0-8223-3723-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Criminal Man'Book summary:Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the born criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombrosos Criminal Man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for subsequent biological theories of crime, including contemporary genetic explanations.[via]Originally published in 1876, Criminal Man went through five editions during Lombrosos lifetime. In each edition Lombroso expanded on his ideas about innate criminality and refined his method for categorizing criminal behavior. In this new translation, Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter bring together for the first time excerpts from all five editions in order to represent the development of Lombrosos thought and his positivistic approach to understanding criminal behavior.
In Criminal Man, Lombroso used modern Darwinian evolutionary theories to prove the inferiority of criminals to honest people, of women to men, and of blacks to whites, thereby reinforcing the prevailing politics of sexual and racial hierarchy. He was particularly interested in the physical attributes of criminalsthe size of their skulls, the shape of their nosesbut he also studied the criminals various forms of self-expression, such as letters, graffiti, drawings, and tattoos. This volume includes more than forty of Lombrosos illustrations of the criminal body along with several photographs of his personal collection. Designed to be useful for scholars and to introduce students to Lombrosos thought, the volume also includes an extensive introduction, notes, appendices, a glossary, and an index.
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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuadorby Suzana SawyerISBN 0822332728 (0-8223-3272-8)
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Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millenniumby Dirk HoerderISBN 0822328348 (0-8223-2834-8)
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Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialismby Ranjana KhannaISBN 0822330679 (0-8223-3067-9)
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A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memoryby Emily S. RosenbergISBN 082233206X (0-8223-3206-X)
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The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945by Eric Paul RoordaISBN 0822321238 (0-8223-2123-8)
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Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Glorianaby Julia M. WalkerISBN 0822320746 (0-8223-2074-6)
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Dona Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identityby Daniel JamesISBN 082232492X (0-8223-2492-X)
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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American Historyby Catherine Ceniza ChoyISBN 082233089X (0-8223-3089-X)
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Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinemaby Linda Schulte-SasseISBN 0822318245 (0-8223-1824-5)
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Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791by Clare Haru CrowstonISBN 0822326663 (0-8223-2666-3)
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Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860by Martin BruegelISBN 0822328496 (0-8223-2849-6)
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Fearon's World HistoryISBN 0822468964 (0-8224-6896-4)
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Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930by Emily S. RosenbergISBN 0822332191 (0-8223-3219-1)
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societiesby Elizabeth McHenryISBN 0822329956 (0-8223-2995-6)
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From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futuresby Brian Keith AxelISBN 0822328887 (0-8223-2888-7)
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German Women for Empire, 1884-1945by Lora WildenthalISBN 0822328194 (0-8223-2819-4)
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Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968by Kevin HeffernanISBN 0822332159 (0-8223-3215-9)
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Gumshoe Americaby Sean McCannISBN 0822325942 (0-8223-2594-2)
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Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American Historyby Ann Laura StolerISBN 082233724X (0-8223-3724-X)
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Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura Wexler
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Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politicsby Lisa LoweISBN 0822318644 (0-8223-1864-4)
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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Culturesby Gayatri GopinathISBN 0822335131 (0-8223-3513-1)
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Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reasonby John David KadvanyISBN 0822326493 (0-8223-2649-3)
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Indian Chiefsby Lynne DeurISBN 0822504618 (0-8225-0461-8)
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Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americasby Leon FinkISBN 0822365936 (0-8223-6593-6)
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The Libertine Colony: Creolization In The Early French Caribbeanby Doris GarrawayISBN 0822334658 (0-8223-3465-8)
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Life and Traditions of the Red Man: A Rediscovered Treasure of Native American Literatureby Joseph Nicolar, Annette KolodnyISBN 0822340283 (0-8223-4028-3)
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Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920sby Simone Weil DavisISBN 0822324466 (0-8223-2446-6)
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979by Tim LawrenceISBN 0822331985 (0-8223-3198-5)
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Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identityby Kathryn R. KentISBN 0822330164 (0-8223-3016-4)
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Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions & Universal Civilizationby Lionel M. JensenISBN 0822320479 (0-8223-2047-9)
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Materialityby George SteinmetzISBN 0822335182 (0-8223-3518-2)
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Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolutionby Sibylle FischerISBN 0822332906 (0-8223-3290-6)
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Monsters Amd Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissageby Francoise VergesISBN 0822322625 (0-8223-2262-5)
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Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleriesby David CarrierISBN 0822336944 (0-8223-3694-4)
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Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United Statesby Russ CastronovoISBN 0822327724 (0-8223-2772-4)
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Moving from medical engravings, séances, and clairvoyant communication to Supreme Court decisions, popular literature, and physiological tracts, Necro Citizenship explores how rituals of inclusion and belonging have generated alienation and dispossession. Castronovo contends that citizenship does violence to bodies, especially those of blacks, women, and workers. Necro ideology, he argues, supplied citizens with the means to think about slavery, economic powerlessness, or social injustice as eternal questions, beyond the scope of politics or critique. By obsessing on sleepwalkers, drowned women, and other corpses, necro ideology fostered a collective demand for an abstract even antidemocratic sense of freedom. Examining issues involving the occult, white sexuality, ghosts, and suicide in conjunction with readings of Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frances Harper, Necro Citizenship successfully demonstrates why Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death has resonated so strongly in the American imagination.
Those working in the fields of American studies, literature, history, and political theory will be interested in the social revelations and cultural connections found in Necro Citizenship.More editions of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States:
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The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japanby Barbara Hamill SatoISBN 0822330083 (0-8223-3008-3)
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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralismby Walter B. MichaelsISBN 0822320649 (0-8223-2064-9)
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Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Filmby Ellis HansonISBN 0822323427 (0-8223-2342-7)
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Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorderby Jackie OrrISBN 0822336235 (0-8223-3623-5)
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Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American East-Asian Relationsby Bruce CumingsISBN 0822329247 (0-8223-2924-7)
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Paul Revereby Jane SutcliffeISBN 0822501953 (0-8225-0195-3)
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The Peace Seekers: The Nobel Peace Prizeby Nathan AasengISBN 0822506548 (0-8225-0654-8)
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Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(S)by Geoffrey M. White, T. Fujitani, Lisa YoneyamaISBN 0822325322 (0-8223-2532-2)
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Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacanby Jennie PurnellISBN 0822323141 (0-8223-2314-1)
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Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory & Practice of Weimar Constitutionalismby Peter C. CaldwellISBN 0822319888 (0-8223-1988-8)
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Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern Indiaby Akhil GuptaISBN 0822322137 (0-8223-2213-7)
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Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissanceby Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. HutchesonISBN 0822323494 (0-8223-2349-4)
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Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Otherby Laurie EssigISBN 082232346X (0-8223-2346-X)
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Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporariesby Jonathan DollimoreISBN 0822333473 (0-8223-3347-3)
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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representationby Jay GrossmanISBN 0822331160 (0-8223-3116-0)
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Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolutionby Matilde ZimmermannISBN 0822325950 (0-8223-2595-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution'Book summary:A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaraguaor in the overall issue of social change. Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED[via]Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Fonseca, killed in battle in 1976, was the undisputed intellectual and strategic leader of the FSLN. In a groundbreaking and fast-paced narrative that draws on a rich archive of previously unpublished Fonseca writings, Matilde Zimmermann sheds new light on central themes in his ideology as well as on internal disputes, ideological shifts, and personalities of the FSLN.
The first researcher ever to be allowed access to Fonsecas unpublished writings (collected by the Institute for the Study of Sandinism in the early 1980s and now in the hands of the Nicaraguan Army), Zimmermann also obtained personal interviews with Fonsecas friends, family members, fellow combatants, and political enemies. Unlike previous scholars, Zimmermann sees the Cuban revolution as the crucial turning point in Fonsecas political evolution. Furthermore, while others have argued that he rejected Marxism in favor of a more pragmatic nationalism, Zimmermann shows how Fonsecas political writings remained committed to both socialist revolution and national liberation from U.S. imperialism and followed the ideas of both Che Guevara and the earlier Nicaraguan leader Augusto César Sandino. She further argues that his philosophy embracing the experiences of the nations workers and peasants was central to the FSLNs initial platform and charismatic appeal.More editions of Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution:
The Seventies Now: Culture As Surveillanceby Stephen Paul MillerISBN 0822321661 (0-8223-2166-1)
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Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, And the Philosophy of Historyby Ian BaucomISBN 0822335964 (0-8223-3596-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, And the Philosophy of History'Book summary:In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ships owners to file an insurance claim for their lost cargo. Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the Zong tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but to encounter a logic of violence key to the unfolding history of Atlantic modernity.[via]Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of todays finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.
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Stringing Together a Nation: Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930by Todd A. DiaconISBN 0822332493 (0-8223-3249-3)
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940sby Sherrie TuckerISBN 0822328178 (0-8223-2817-8)
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Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologistsby David H. PriceISBN 0822333384 (0-8223-3338-4)
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africaby Mungo Park, James Rennell, Kate Ferguson MarstersISBN 0822325373 (0-8223-2537-3)
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We Ain't What We Was: Civil Rights in the New Southby Frederick M. WirtISBN 0822318938 (0-8223-1893-8)
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Panola County hasn't solved all of its problems, as Professor Wirt's book makes clear, but it has come a long way since the early, violent days of the civil rights movement in the South. "We Ain't What We Was" is a testament to the role federal law often plays in issues for which there is no local mandate or desire to change. [via]
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The Whistle.by Benjamin Franklin, George OverlieISBN 0822502828 (0-8225-0282-8)
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Who Killed John Clayton: Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893by Kenneth C. BarnesISBN 082232072X (0-8223-2072-X)
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Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywoodby Jon LewisISBN 082231889X (0-8223-1889-X)
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Witch-Hunting In Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638-1693by David D. HallISBN 0822336138 (0-8223-3613-8)
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Work Songsby Ted GioiaISBN 0822337266 (0-8223-3726-6)
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The Wright Brothersby Ginger WadsworthISBN 0822501996 (0-8225-0199-6)
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