History of scholarship Books
The University of Chicago Press Opening Up
Book SynopsisMore and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai.Trade Review"Opening Up conveys a panoramic, vivid, and fully convincing picture of the changing scene in China with remarkable assurance. James Farrer draws on extensive research and interviews with Chinese youth, revealing a rich and deep mastery of his subject. This is an extraordinary new book." - Ann Swidler, author of Talk of Love; "I can think of few books that offer such a layered appreciation for the textures of everyday life in urban China. Written in a hip and contemporary style, Opening Up is a pleasure to read." - Michael Dutton, author of Streetlife China
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Exodus
Book SynopsisThis work shows how the biblical story of suffering and the journey to redemption inspired a pragmatic tradition of racial advocacy among African Americans in the early 19th century. It compares the historical uses of Exodus by black and white Americans and the concepts on "nation" it generated.
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Is it Nation Time Contemporary Essays on Black
Book SynopsisThis work gathers classic essays on the Black Power movement and its legacy by renowned thinkers, who deal rigorously and unsentimentally with such issues as the commodification of blackness, the piety of cultural recovery, and class tensions within the movement.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Is It Nation Time Contemporary Essays on Black
Book SynopsisThis work gathers new and classic essays on the Black Power movement and its legacy by renowned thinkers who deal rigorously and unsentimentally with such issues as the commodification of blackness, the piety of cultural recovery, and class tensions within the movement.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press New York and Los Angeles Politics Society and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents advanced studies that consider the fundamental difference of urban center versus decentralization that operates in the cities of New York and Los Angeles, while comparing politics and culture in each area.
£94.00
The University of Chicago Press New York and Los Angeles Politics Society and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents advanced studies that consider the fundamental difference of urban center versus decentralization that operates in the cities of New York and Los Angeles, while comparing politics and culture in each area.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Lost Promise of Patriotism
Book SynopsisJonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to the crisis of American identity leading up to World War I lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism.
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Promise of Patriotism
Book SynopsisJonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to the crisis of American identity leading up to World War I lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Harlemworld Doing Race and Class in Contemporary
Book SynopsisHarlem is one of the most famous neighbourhoods in the world - a historic symbol of both black cultural acheivements and of the rigid boundaries separating rich from poor. This work illustrates how Harlem is far more culturally diverse than its cariacature suggests.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Restless Nation
Book SynopsisIn "Restless nation" James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the present day, Americans have always had a deep-rooted belief in the 'fresh-start' philosophy, explored in this work.Trade Review"Jasper's thesis... is strong and tantalizing. He does not restrict himself to a single discipline or line of argument, but dazzles readers with a stunning combination of literary critique, cultural analysis and economic estimation." - Publishers Weekly "Jasper travels across the American psyche to explore our unique infatuation with movement and personal reinvention.... To the author, this undergirds the cult of individualism as well as conservative, antigovernment politics in America.... The fluidity contributes to the dynamism of U.S. society but ensures a weak sense of community.... Restless Nation is an engaging essay on why we move so much." - Library Journal
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Transatlantic Subjects Acts of Migration and
Book SynopsisViewing the diaspora of early 20th century migration from Southern Europe to the United States, Laliotou recounts the vibrant history of Greek migrants in modern America through close readings of short stories, novels, films, newspapers, and other media of the period.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Bringing the Empire Home
Book SynopsisZine Magubane tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to reveal the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press God and Government in the Ghetto
Book SynopsisAs government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This title demonstrates that this alliance serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership in black civil society.Trade Review"This exceptional book will be crucial for those of us who study black politics. In this era of strange alliances between the Republican right and black Christian fundamentalists, research that illuminates how the formerly contentious and confrontational black church has adapted to certain political realities has cutting-edge relevancy." - Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Kinshasa in Transition Womens Education
Book SynopsisKinshasa is now the second largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa, with a population around five million. The authors trace the impact on women's lives of social, economic and demographic changes that have resulted from the rapid expansion of the city.
£57.79
The University of Chicago Press Infamous Desire
Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.
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The University of Chicago Press Infamous Desire
Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Insurgent Communities
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University of Chicago Press Insurgent Communities
Book SynopsisSociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlandsexamining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants' rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regimeto argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants' diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Master Plans and Minor Acts
Book SynopsisAn examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor Actsexamines a material politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda, where in a country saturated with deep historical memory, spatial master planning aims to drastically redesign urban spaces. How is the post-conflict city reconstituted through the work of such planning, and with what effects for material repair and social conciliation? Through extended ethnographic and qualitative research in Rwanda in the decades after the genocide of 1994, this book questions how repair after conflict is realized amidst large-scale urban transformation. Bridging African studies, urban studies, and human geography in its scope,this work tiesRwanda's transformation to contexts of urban change in other post-conflict spaces, bringing to the fore critical questions about the ethics of planning in such complex geographies.
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press All the Rage The Story of Gay Visibility in
Book SynopsisFrom the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public life. Combining personal stories with analysis, this book argues that we live in a time where gays are seen, but not necessarily heard.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Kiss of the Yogini
Book SynopsisReconstructs the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period. This book contains translations from over a dozen Tantras. It is useful for those seeking to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture, and religion.Trade Review"Kiss of the Yogini is one of the few good, interesting books about Tantra, a passionately argued work that transforms scholarly understanding of its subject.... By reconstructing the medieval South Asian Kaula and Tantric traditions that involved sexual practices, David White hopes to restore the dignity and autonomy of the people who invented them and continue to practise them. This monumental scholarly work does precisely that." - Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement"
£31.35
McGill-Queen's University Press Freeing Trade in North America
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McGill-Queen's University Press New Media and Revolution
Book SynopsisInvestigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, this book shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. It interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from hidden practices of digital dissent to tangible mass protests.Trade Review"Some observers attribute the origins of the Arab Spring revolutions to social media, especially to YouTube (two million uploads during the Syrian conflict's first two years). Brownlee (Univ. of Exeter) demonstrates, however, that the transition from online "revolution" to a real-life people's revolution in Syria resulted from a lengthy process that involved increased access, new professional standards, and privatization under Bashar al-Assad, together transforming the heavily censored "kingdom of silence." Recommended. All readers." Choice"Brownlee's book is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on Syria, Arab media, authoritarianism, and the public sphere in the Middle East. The book approaches the subject of Syrian media -- a subject that deserves greater academic attention -- from a fresh, instructive angle." The Middle East Journal
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press International Education as Public Policy in
Book SynopsisIn the early twenty-first century international education emerged as an almost ubiquitous concept within discussions of educational curriculum; the objectives of schools, universities, and colleges; and government policies for K12 and higher education. Although far from a new phenomenon, many jurisdictions now view international education as a highly competitive global industry. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international education policy in Canada, tracing the complex history of when, how, and why it emerged as a policy area of strategic importance. Illuminating a uniquely Canadian perspective, influenced by regional interests and federal-provincial tensions, International Education as Public Policy in Canada addresses challenging questions: Why was Canada a latecomer in addressing this policy issue? What is the relationship between international education and Canadian immigration policy? How did international education develop as a major Canadian industry?Trade Review"Engaging a wide range of policy theories and taking historical, federal, regional/provincial, intersectoral, and multi-actor perspectives, International Education as Public Policy in Canada provides a comprehensive look at Canada’s broader policy context. The book is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research on Canadian international education, and the authors tell the Canadian story of international education as policy as a highly nuanced narrative." Michael Owen, Brock University
£40.93
McGill-Queen's University Press The Strongmen European Encounters with Sovereign Power
Book SynopsisHow should Europe deal with the men of global politics who don't play by the rules?
£33.56
Columbia University Press Colonial Citizens Republican Rights Paternal
Book SynopsisThompson shows how post-WWI Syrians and Lebanese mobilized to claim the terms of citizenship enjoyed in the European metropole. Colonial Citizens highlights gender as a central battlefield upon which the relative rights and obligations of states and citizens were established.Trade ReviewThis book deserves to be widely read. One of the most significant contributions to the historiography of modern Syria and Lebanon in recent years. -- Margaret L. Meriwether American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsI. War and the Advent of French Rule: A Crisis of Paternity 1. World War I: Famine, Memory, and a Shattered Social Order 2. Soldiers and Patriarchs: Pillars of Colonial Paternalism 3. Bureaucrats: Mother France's Civilizing Mission II. Paternal Republicanism and the Construction of Subaltern Citizens 4. State Social Policy: Constructing a Hierarchy of Citizens 5. Revolt: The Rise of Subaltern Movements III. Gender and the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order 6. Political Rights: Women's Suffrage as a Revolutionary Threat 7. The Veil and the Dual Legal System 8. Civil Rights: Patriotic Motherhood and Religious Law Reform 9. Social Rights: Emergence of a Colonial Welfare State IV. Gendering The Public: Spatial Boundaries Of The Colonial Civic Order 10. Remapping the Urban Landscape 11. Street Violence: Regendering an Old Urban Space 12. Cinemas: Gendering a New Urban Space 13. The Press: Gendering the Virtual Public V. World War II and the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order 14. Climax of the Colonial Welfare State 15. Claiming Paternity of Independent Republics 16. The Making of Postcolonial Citizens
£25.50
Columbia University Press Sources of Japanese Tradition
Book SynopsisA selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. This work includes: readings on early and medieval Shinto and on the tea ceremony, readings on state Buddhism and Chinese political thought influential in Japan, and sections on women's education.Trade ReviewThe long awaited second edition, with new contributions reflecting who's who in the field, adds new readings and revisions for a more balanced perspecitve... Sources lives again as a useful introduction that "lets the Japanese speak for themselves." Religious Studies Review I am a fan of Volume One of Sources of Japanese Tradition... The daunting task of revisiting such a classic was skillfully handled by the editors. Japanese Journal of Religious StudiesTable of ContentsPart 1: Early Japan 1. The Earliest Records of Japan 2. Early Shinto 3. Prince Shotoku and His Constitution 4. Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan 5. Nara Buddhism Part 2: Mahayana Universalism and the Sense of Hierarchy 6. Saicho and Mt. Hiei (Ryusaku Tsunoda and Paul Groner) 7. Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism 8. The Spread of Esoteric Buddhism 9. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics I 10. Amida, the Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New 11. New Voices of History (Paul Varley) 12. The Way of the Warrior (Paul Varley) 13. Nichiren: The Sun and the Lotus (Philip Yampolsky) 14. Zen Buddhism (William Bodiford) 15. Shinto in Medieval Japan 16. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics II 17. Women's Education 18. Law and Precepts for the Warrior Houses (Paul Varley) 19. The Regime of the Unifiers (Jurgis S. A. Elisonas)
£125.00
Columbia University Press The Politics of AntiWesternism in Asia
Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia University Cemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton University Cemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University [Aydin] has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye Foreign Affairs Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler Pacific Affairs The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. H-Diplo Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius H-Soz-u-Kult ...an impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar Journal of Global History Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. Journal of Ottoman StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£44.00
Columbia University Press The Politics of AntiWesternism in Asia
Book SynopsisCemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century through World War II, focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia UniversityCemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton UniversityCemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown UniversityAydin . . . identifies both deep currents in Asian intellectual history and popular views of power and politics. He has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye * Foreign Affairs *Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler * Pacific Affairs *[A]n impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar * Journal of Global History *An extremely well-researched book, bursting with arguments and insights . . . [that] will be a boon for scholars who are interested in East-West relations. * Ethics & International Affairs *The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. * H-Diplo *Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius * H-Soz-u-Kult *Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. * Journal of Ottoman Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.25
Columbia University Press Sources of Japanese Tradition Abridged
Book SynopsisA collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this text features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West.Table of ContentsPreface Explanatory Note Chronology Contributors Part IV. The Tokugawa Peace 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan 23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japan's First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas 24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education 26. Popular Instruction 27. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman 28. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism 29. The Way of the Warrior II 30. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco 31. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period 32. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform 33. Forerunners of the Restoration 34. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration Bibliography Index
£32.30
Columbia University Press Contemporary Chinese Societies
Book SynopsisIntroducing students to Chinese society, this CD-ROM features six themes that address issues across several fields in the social sciences and humanities including, unity of diversity; views of time and space; adapting to a changing world; and others. It provides video introductions for each unit; and interactive maps; Web links; and a glossary.Trade ReviewA well-designed curriculum. Library Journal A wonderful resource on contemporary China. Choice
£55.80
Columbia University Press Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in
Book SynopsisExplores the vital role that industrial policies can play in bringing about a transformation of African economiesTrade ReviewAn invaluable guide for Africa's pursuit of economic transformation and for those concerned with the 'what' and 'how' of government's role. This book highlights where government and industry can collaborate to design and execute a transformation agenda and sharply details why industrial policies should be central to government strategies. -- K. Y. Amoako, president, African Center for Economic Transformation A refreshing and timely intervention in policy debates on the industrialization of African countries. The book is outstanding and should be read not only by those interested in Africa's industrialization but also by readers from other parts of the world who have sought to bring industrial policy back into their own development thinking and endeavors. -- Thandika Mkandawire, London School of Economics This impressive book is about how to generate decent jobs, reduce poverty, and achieve inclusive and sustainable structural transformation through industrialization in Africa. It should be read by anyone who hopes to transform or help transform Africa from a land of poverty to a land of prosperity. -- Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University and former chief economist of the World Bank Marked by breadth and clarity, this is a valuable addition to the literature on economic policy on the African continent... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcronyms Acknowledgments 1. Introduction and Overview: Economic Transformation and Learning, Industrial, and Technology Policies in Africa, by Akbar Noman and Joseph E. Stiglitz 2. Is Industrial Policy Necessary and Feasible in Africa?: Theoretical Considerations and Historical Lessons, by Ha-Joon Chang 3. Industrial Strategy and Economic Transformation: Lessons from Five Outstanding Cases, by Akio Hosono 4. The Economic Implications of a Comprehensive Approach to Learning on Industrial Policy: The Case of Ethiopia, by Go Shimada 5. Review of Industrial Policies in Ethiopia: A Perspective from the Leather and Cut Flower Industries, by Girum Abebe and Florian Schaefer 6. The Return of Industrial Policy: (What) Can Africa Learn from Latin America?, by Annalisa Primi 7. Can the Financial Sector Deliver Both Growth and Financial Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa?, by Stephany Griffith-Jones with Ewa Karwowski 8. Growth Strategies for Africa in a Changing Global Environment: Policy Observations for Sustainable and Shared Growth, by Danny Leipziger and Shahid Yusuf 9. Measuring Policy Performance: Can We Do Better than the World Bank?, by Julia Cage About the Editors About the Authors Index
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Columbia University Press Away from Chaos
Book SynopsisAway from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle East conflict and its worldwide ramifications. Gilles Kepel offers a clear and persuasive narrative of the long-term causes of tension while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from the people who lived through them.Trade ReviewGilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East. -- Robert F. Worth, The New York Times MagazineGilles Kepel has lived the torment of the modern Middle East as a scholar and, ultimately, as a target of the jihadists. In Away from Chaos, he narrates that tortured story and proposes a return for the steadying forces of a century ago—the European nations, a rising Russia, and the internal balancers of the Levant whose destiny is to bridge East and West. -- David Ignatius, Washington PostIf you want to understand the contemporary Middle East, this is the place to begin. Gilles Kepel’s book is a deeply insightful, empathetic, almost elegiac text that both explains how the region ended up in its present predicament and how it may find its way out of it. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of The Cold War: A World HistoryIn Away from Chaos, Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s most prominent scholars of Middle Eastern politics, provides a grand narrative of this region’s history over the last four decades, explaining the rise and possible end of Islamism as a mobilizing force. Relying on his deep personal engagement with the Middle East and also with Islam in Europe, Kepel masterfully charts the region’s upheavals and their grave implications for the West. What emerges is an intimate and deeply learned portrait—the culmination of a lifetime of study and sympathetic observation. -- Bernard Haykel, Princeton UniversityWho else but Gilles Kepel could have written this seductively provocative book? Kepel has drawn on his decades of deliberation and argument in this tour d’horizon of the development of Islamist movements in the Middle East since the 1960s. Away from Chaos offers a review, equally challenging and accessible, of the modern political history of the Middle East. -- Lisa Anderson, author of Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First CenturyMore than other observers of events in the Middle East and North Africa today, Kepel offers a persuasive framework for understanding the turbulence and uncertainty facing the region—and how events in one country affect those elsewhere in the region and beyond. -- Dale F. Eickelman, coauthor of Muslim PoliticsAn excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region...devoid of the crippling ideological blinders that sometimes disfigure books about a part of the world so rife with ideology. -- Michael J. Totten * The New York Times *A powerful, sweeping overview of major Middle Eastern political change since the 1970s -- W. Andrew Terrill * Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Testament for SyriaPart I. The Barrel and the Koran1. The Islamization of the Political Order2. The Onset of International Jihad: Taking on the Near Enemy (1980–1987)3. The Second Jihadist Phase: Against the Distant Enemy (1998–2005)4. The Third Jihadist Generation: Networks and Territories (2005–2019)Part II. From Arab Spring to Jihadist Caliphate5. The Arab Spring in Context6. From the Fall of Despots to Societies in Turmoil7. Sectarianism and Derailed Rebellions: The Shiite-Sunni Fault LinePart III. After ISIS: Disintegration and Regrouping8. The Fracturing of the Sunni Bloc9. The Global Stakes in the Fight for the LevantConclusion: Middle Eastern Fault Lines and Global TectonicsAcknowledgmentsChronologyIndex
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Columbia University Press Oil Powers A History of the U.S.Saudi Alliance
Book SynopsisVictor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia's huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national-security state.Trade ReviewThe extraordinary relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has influenced both countries, often for the worse. There is no better guide to the origins of this complex alliance than McFarland’s new book. Anyone with an interest in the U.S. role in the Middle East should read it. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of The Cold War: A World HistoryA lot of nonsense has been written since 9/11 about the history of United States-Saudi relations. Oil Powers gets it right. -- Robert Vitalis, author of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy PolicyMcFarland’s superb, deeply researched book convincingly shows just how crucial the U.S.–Saudi alliance was in reorienting America’s foreign policy and the global economy in the 1970s. The legacies of these policies—wars in the Middle East, the rise of finance, and others—continue to shape global affairs today. -- Vanessa Ogle, author of The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950Erudite and eloquent, Oil Powers is required reading for all those interested in U.S.-Saudi relations, oil politics, and the international political economy. McFarland makes a stirring argument for Saudi influence on the financialization and militarization of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East in the 1970s. -- Christopher R. W. Dietrich, author of Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of DecolonizationMcFarland charts the growth of deep connections between the Saudi government and American big business, lobbyists and other corporate interests in the Washington DC “swamp”, and shows how these have entrenched executive power in the US, and royal power in Saudi Arabia, with the result that both governments have become less responsive to their people. * Times Literary Supplement *Suitable as a secondary text for a contemporary Middle East studies or international relations course or seminar. * Choice *Erudite and eloquent, Oil Powers is required reading for all those who are interested in the history of U.S.-Saudi relations, oil politics, and the international political economy. -- Christopher Dietrich * H-Diplo *McFarland’s compelling narrative is laced with the panic of oil market experts who warn that America’s oil intensive economy rendered the country vulnerable to market manipulation that soon comes to pass. * Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Arabic Transliteration Introduction: Jeddah, 19741. Wheels of Empire2. Roads to Profit3. Ignition4. Machines in Motion5. The Cutoff6. Unmoored7. Turning Right8. AscentConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd Einsteins War
Book Synopsis''Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story'' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning CopenhagenIn 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity. Until then Einstein''s masterpiece of time and space had been trapped behind the physical and ideological lines of battle, unknown. Einstein''s name is now synonymous with ''genius'', but it was not an easy road. He spent a decade creating relativity and his ascent to global celebrity owed much to against-the-odds international collaboration, including Eddington''s globe-spanning expedition of 1919 - two years before they finally met. We usually think of scientific discovery as a flash of individual inspiration, but here we see Trade ReviewRiveting . . . Stanley lets us share the excitement a hundred years later in this entertaining and gripping book. It's a must read if you ever wondered how Einstein became 'Einstein' -- Manjit Kumar, author of 'Quantum'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story -- Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning 'Copenhagen'For a century, Einstein's relativity has inspired otherworldly thoughts. Yet as Matthew Stanley demonstrates, Einstein's efforts were deeply enmeshed within our own world - a world riven by the drama and disruption of the First World War. This beautifully written, moving account captures the heady thrills and crushing setbacks of one of the great intellectual adventures of modern times -- David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics, MIT, author of 'How the Hippies Saved Physics'Even if you know a lot about the history of relativity - even if you know the old stories about Sir Arthur Eddington's voyage in 1919 to try to prove Albert Einstein's theories correct - you probably haven't pondered just how unlikely the Einstein/Eddington pairing really was. At a time where the mere hint of fraternization with the enemy could land you in jail as a spy, a Briton embraced the ideas of an enemy scientist, and helped launch the legend of arguably the greatest physicist of modern times. A fascinating story -- Charles Seife, author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaDetailed and readable . . . It is especially revealing about Einstein's scientific work and private life leading up to the momentous events of 1919 -- Peter Coles * Nature *A thrilling history of the development of the theory of relativity . . . a superb account of Einstein's and Eddington's spectacularly successful struggles to work and survive under miserable wartime conditions * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *Impressive . . . Stanley's well-told and impressively readable chronicle delivers a wider, and still relevant, message that how science is performed is inextricable from other aspects of people's lives * Publishers Weekly *He succeeds in wrapping up the global, national and scientific politics of an era in a compelling story of one man's wild theory, lucidly sketched, and its experimental confirmation in the unlikeliest and most exotic circumstances -- Simon Ings * Spectator *Few books about events a century ago carry as relevant a message for today's world of resurgent nationalism as does Matthew Stanley's Einstein's War . . . Stanley is a storyteller par excellence...[his] riveting, blow-by-blow account of Einstein's struggle...is an unusually reader-friendly journey into relativity theory . . . Einstein and Eddington would have liked it * Washington Post *An insightful and elegantly written exploration of the impact of war on science in both Britain and Germany -- PD Smith * TLS *
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 7
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 8
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press Southern Discomfort
Book SynopsisLinked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women--that shaped women''s activism in the vibrant, multiethnic city. Hewitt emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa''s triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South''s biracial social and political order. Trade ReviewJulia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2002. "A splendid piece of work: rich in detail, soundly reasoned, and provocative in its implications for social historians' debates about identity. Hewitt's lucid, engaging prose makes the book a particularly good one for use in undergraduate classrooms, but specialists will also find it a most valuable read."--Journal of American History"Hewitt's book revises previous notions about the biracialism of Jim Crow. . . . Outstanding scholarship."--Choice"Enriches our understanding of women and gender in urban history through [the] astute analys[is] of women as key public actors and cultural symbols in the emerging city of Tampa."--Urban HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1Part 1: The Making of a Multiracial City, 1880-1901 1. Creating the Cigar City 21 2. An Activist Mosaic 38 3. Solidarity and Segregation 67 4. Race Conflicts and Class Currents 98Part 2: Kaleidoscopic Connections, 1902-29 5. African American Women Confront Jim Crow 142 6. Anglo Women in the Era of Institution Building 170 7. Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants 200 8. New Women 222 9. Recasting Activist Identities 248 Epilogue 271 Notes 277 Index 335 Illustrations follow page 136
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University of Illinois Press Pacific Citizens
Book SynopsisDiscusses the power of the press in Japanese American historyTrade Review"This collection of the couples' personal letters and articles in the Pacific Citizens, and other publications is a positive example of how the United States corrects its errors and learns from them. . . . A welcome addition to the University of Illinois Press Asian American Experience series, providing fascinating insights into the struggles of Japanese Americans during the 20th century."--Journalism History"Fills a gap in the historical record by examining the main Japanese American newspaper published outside the camps. Pacific Citizens would be a welcome addition to college journalism classes about race, class, and gender."--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"A complex and nuanced portrait of Larry and Guyo Tajiri, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) newspaper, Pacific Citizen, and the National JACL."--Nichi Bei"Pacific Citizens is an extraordinary piece of historical scholarship. Robinson possesses the rare facility among professional historians of being analytically rigorous while at the same time writing in narrative prose characterized by grace and accessibility."--Arthur A. Hansen, coeditor of Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies
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University of Illinois Press An African in Paris
Book SynopsisWriting in an informal and episodic style, Bernard Dadié recounts a West African man''s first journey to France, from the exhilarating moment when he obtains his ticket through a humorous and fascinating tour across the City of Light. In 1959, when Un Negre a Paris first appeared, the French still held West Africa under colonial rule. Dadié''s subtle parodies draw on intimate knowledge obtained over decades spent observing the colonizers abroad and now, suddenly, on their own home terrain. His remarks on Parisian living conditions, wordplay, manners, and and morals are entertaining and poignant, charming yet profound. Trade Review"These travel reports present a vision of France through the eyes of a naive traveler, whose irony, humor, and quality of observation remind me very much of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes."--Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Duke University
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University of Illinois Press The Citizens Council
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A tour de force of research and narration." -- Journal of Southern History. "An admirable analysis of prevailing right wing and white supremacist thought." -- Journal of Negro History
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University of Illinois Press High Mountains Rising
Book SynopsisProvides a systematic overview of the Appalachian timeline, its people, and significant aspects of life in the region. This work also focuses on addressing stereotypes, music, folk life, language, literature, and religion.Trade ReviewAppalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction, 2005. Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, 2005. "This stimulating, readable collection of essays gives a fine overview of Appalachia, its history, its people, and different aspects of life in the region over time that range from economic and social life to literature and folklore."--Loyal Jones, former director of the Berea College Appalachian Center and author of Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands"What a fine addition to books about Appalachia. . . . It is an anthology that serves as the single best introduction to the whole idea of Appalachia. . . . The authors of the selections are quite simply the foremost experts in their fields, and they have managed to create entries which serve as excellent introductions to their topics while at the same time they are stimulating to the already well-informed."--Appalachian Heritage"The first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture."--Black Issues Book Review"Blethen and Straw should be commended for their work compiling and editing this important and very accessible collection. The individual essays hang together well, and there is an impressive internal consistency between them. . . . High Mountains Rising should be, and undoubtedly will be, widely used in Appalachian Studies classes."--Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Richard A. Straw 1. Native Americans 7 C. Clifford Boyd Jr. 2. Pioneer Settlement 17 H. Tyler Blethen 3. Slavery and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century 30 John C. Inscoe 4. The Civil War and Reconstruction 46 Gordon B. McKinney 5. Industrialization 59 Ronald L. Lewis 6. The Great Depression 74 Paul Salstrom 7. Migration 88 Phillip J. Obermiller 8. Stereotypes 101 David C. Hsiung 9. Music 114 Bill C. Malone 10. Folklife 135 Michael Ann Williams 11. English Language 147 Michael Montgomery 12. Literature 165 Ted Olson 13. Religion 179 Deborah Vansau McCauley 14. Modernization, 1940-2000 197 Ronald D Eller Suggested Readings 221 Contributors 231 Index 235
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University of Illinois Press The Chicago Black Renaissance and Womens Activism
Book SynopsisFollowing on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theatre, music, and intellectualism, from 1930 to 1955. This work demonstrates the complexity of black women's many vital contributions to this unique cultural flowering.Trade ReviewReceived the Superior Achievement Award by the Illinois State Historical Society (2007)."This is an important and significant study. It clarifies the established links among artists, academics, activists, and community and illuminates the gendered dynamics of a localized renaissance that resonated nationally."--American Historical Review"The composite parts of Knupfer's work are overwhemingly impressive . . . Chicago may remain arguably the most overstudied city . . . yet Knupfer's innovations in subject matter, source material, and synthesis suggest that the City of the Big Shoulders has whole new layers of weight to carry."--Journal of American History"Anne Meis Knupfer's important volume. . . . provides a significant contribution to the historical literature on African American women's activism."--Indiana Magazine of History
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University of Illinois Press The Immigrant Threat
Book SynopsisFocuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states.Trade Review"This book is an important addition to the literature on integration in Western Europe, and draws on a balanced selection of key works that have contributed to an understanding of the impact migration processes have on both the host society and on the migrants themselves. . . . With a historian's eye for comparative detail that links the past and the present, Lucassen has written a book that shows how perceptions of migrants as problematic and threatening to the host nation are not a new phenomenon."--Patterns of Prejudice"The acid test of a scholarly book is whether we learn something new from reading it—a more stringent version, whether we learn something new about a subject we thought we already knew well. By that tougher standard, Leo Lucassen's new book, The Immigrant Threat, passes with distinction. . . . It rescues a nearly lost history, that of earlier immigrations to western European countries, such as the movement of Italians to France. . . . Lucassen is convincing that the comparison between past and present has produced a 'feast of recognition' of similarities between different eras, notwithstanding the obvious differences."--International Review of Social History"By far the most persuasive and important message of the book is the general one that historians and social scientists should get together more and pool their resources. Certainly social science researchers examining recent and contemporary migrations have tended to overlook the past. On the one hand, the successful incorporation of immigrants in earlier migration epochs has become an invisible part of national histories and memories; on the other hand, the longer-term assumption (based especially on the U.S. experience) of successful assimilation hides many difficult phases of discrimination and ethnic identity survival."--International History Review"Well-written and extremely well-researched. . . . Makes a significant contribution to current immigration debates and should be widely consulted."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"Important reading for U.S. as well as European audiences. Highly recommended."--Choice
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University of Illinois Press Reproductive Restraints
Book SynopsisTraces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and United States. This book draws attention to the interactive and relational history of Indian birth control.Trade Review"An essential source... This book is a solid contribution to the field of discourse analysis."--American Historical Review "Represents a major breakthrough not only in feminist studies but also in the studies of subaltern groups in general."--Technology and Culture "Ahluwalia's historical instincts are keen... Accessibly written, skillfully organized, and wonderfully researched."--Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "A comprehensive historical study... Will certainly be very useful for any student or scholar of contemporary India."Moussons "A major breakthrough in feminist studies and also in the studies of subaltern groups in general... Reproductive Restraints deserves serious recognition for presenting the voices from below, and providing a scathing critique of the western, imperialist, racist, elitist, feminist, liberal, nationalist and Subalternist projects from above."--Environment and History
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University of Illinois Press AsiaPacifiQueer
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary, multicultural reassessment of gender and sexuality in the Asian PacificTrade Review"Opens up new paradigms in understanding LGBTQ cultures in Asia and beyond."--Intersections"Needs to be read by everyone interested in sex and gender."--Pacific Affairs
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Indiana University Press Identity Citizenship and Political Conflict in
Book SynopsisReconsiders how national identity has been understood in Africa and presents new approaches to identity politics, intergroup relations, state-society relations, and notions of national citizenship and citizenship rights.Trade ReviewKeller shows a strong understanding of the political dynamics at play in the discourse around identity and citizenship in Africa. He does not declare a one-size-fit-all attitude in his analysis of the various countries used as case studies. By consciously declaring that there is no one way to read civil conflict in modern Africa, he makes the book an obvious work in progress. This is welcomed given the complex nature of various African nation states. I find the book to be incisive in analysis and critical to the issues of identity and citizenship in Africa. It potentially forms a significant text for scholars and students of African conflict studies. For ordinary readers, the work is engaging and detailed with current information about the situation in many African countries. * African Studies Quarterly *Most certainly, Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa is a useful publication, which contributes to the disciplines of African studies, history, and politics and should benefit students, general readers, and scholars with interdisciplinary academic interests. * Africa Today *This book would certainly be useful in graduate seminars on African politics, African history or ethnic politics. It is written in a clear, straightforward style that also makes it appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate classes. Keller also offers insights for policymakers and development practitioners who continue to grapple with the real-world consequences of citizenship conflicts. * Journal of Modern African Studies *Keller has written an impressive and path-breaking book in African politics that can be useful by upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in African studies. * African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review *Altogether, this book offers a fine survey of the essential question of citizenship in Africa, one that will be of particular value to those without prior exposure to the scholarship on the topic. It is also a fitting testimony to a rich academic career. * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsPrefacePart I. Citizenship and Political Conflict in Contemporary Africa1. Identity, Citizenship, and Nation Building in Africa2. Theoretical and Formal-Legal Dimensions of the Concept of Citizenship in Africa3. Toward an Analytical Framework of Identity and Citizenship in AfricaPart II. Identity Politics and Selected Cases in Conflict over Citizenship Rights in Africa4. Nigeria: Indigeneity and Citizenship5. Ethiopia: The Politics of Late Nation Building and the National Question6. Côte d'Ivoire: Ivorité and Citizenship7. Kenya: Citizenship, Land, and Ethnic Cleansing8. Rwanda: Exclusionary Nationalism, Democracy, and GenocideSummary and Conclusion: Identity, Citizenship, and Social Conflict NotesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Socialist Heritage
Book SynopsisFocusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project. Contrary to arguments that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase the pre-war history of the socialist cities, Emanuela Grama shows that the communist state in Romania sought to exploit the past for its own benefit. The book traces the transformation of a central district of Bucharest, the Old Town, from a socially and ethnically diverse place in the early 20th century, into an epitome of national history under socialism, and then, starting in the 2000s, into the historic center of a European capital. Under socialism, politicians and professionals used the district's historic buildings, especially the ruins of a medieval palace discovered in the 1950s, to emphasize the city's Romanian past and erase its ethnically diverse history. Since the collapse of socialism, the cultural and economic value ofTrade ReviewThe volume presents a nuanced analysis of material heritage and its strategic use during the socialist period in Romania's capital city Bucharest and its continued legacy today. What is refreshing in this book, apart from the careful documentation and wealth of archival sources consulted, is the fact that the author brought together sources from fields that are not seemingly directly connected to heritage studies. Grama gracefully moves across different areas through with her use of secondary sources, bringing together urban planning, political studies, economic and social analyses. Grama also brings together key anthropological research studies on Romania, both national and international. -- Cristina Clopot * International Journal of Heritage Studies *The strengths of this book are the breadth of the data sources, which have enabled the author to uncover in detail how change in a particular historic urban landscape is shaped by broader issues of power and identity (in both socialist and post-socialist contexts). Socialist Heritage will be of interest to postgraduate students and academic researchers in disciplines such as history, anthropology, human geography, urban studies and sociology. For anybody wanting to understand Bucharest's Old Town there is no better source available. Indeed, over the course of 25 years I have frequently wandered around the Old Town and found myself asking "why is it like this?". Now, after reading Socialist Heritage, I know. -- Duncan Light * Eurasian Geography and Economics *Grama does a brilliant job bringing this story to our attention and explaining why we should care about it. Her book deserves to be widely read. * Survival *An outstanding contribution in the field of anthropology of heritage. -- Dana Domsodi * Sociologia *Grama takes us through a journey of how the heritage discourse was first constructed and operationalized through archaeological, historiographic, and urban planning activities under state socialism, and then repurposed as well as contested after 1989, with results that show profound fissures in the ability to deploy "heritage" as a successful legitimating tool. . . . Overall, the book offers a vivid and provocative analysis of the politics of urban planning in Bucharest after World War II. The arc of the narrative highlights the huge gaps between policy makers and citizens who bear the brunt of these heritage entrepreneurs' ambitions for power and money. -- Maria Bucur * ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY *The book is beautifully written, and readers from different disciplinary backgrounds interested in topics as diverse as socialism and postsocialism, the materiality of the state and city, architecture and its political power, including the making of urban heritage, will find enough to enrich their own reflections. -- Antonela Capelle Pogacean * H-Urban *Emanuela Grama's Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is a compelling exploration of heritage making as state-making through the lens of the postwar and postcommunist transformations of Bucharest's Old Town. . . . A theoretically dense but engagingly written book, Socialist Heritage is a must-read not only for specialists of (post)socialist Romania and eastern Europe, but also for students and researchers of nationalism, urbanization and heritage making, history (re)writing, the role of experts under socialism, postcommunist efforts of Europeanization, and privatization as gentrification, or ruination as commodification. -- Diana Georgescu * Slavic Review *This book is well-grounded in empirical data, especially archival (for the socialist period) and ethnographic (for both socialist and especially postsocialist circumstances)—the interpretation of the sources and the extracts from the documents and interlocutors' statements vividly reveal discourses of politics, experts and residents related to the Old Town's (re)making, and not just regarding the area's heritage. -- Srdjan Radovic * Comparative Southeast European Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Tensed Urban Visions: Making Bucharest into a Socialist Capital2. Matters of State: Archaeology, Materiality, and State-Making 3. Time-Travelling Houses and Histories Made Invisible 4. Lipstick and Lined Pockets: Strategic Devaluation and Postsocialist Wealth 5. Displacements: Property, Privatization, and Precarity in a Europeanizing CityConclusionBibliographyIndex
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