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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Tautly written and thoroughly researched, Feuchtwanger's Bismarck ... is marvellous at digesting and presenting mountains of research.' - Geoffrey Wawro, University of North Texas‘It is good to have so accessible a biography of Bismarck in one volume. Feuchtwanger takes account of much of the recent writing on the history of the period. Especially valuable is the highlighting of connections between Bismarck’s domestic and foreign policies.’ John Breuilly, University of Birmingham'It is good to have so accessible a biography of Bismarck in one volume. Feuchtwanger takes account of much of the recent writing on the history of the period. Especially valuable is the highlighting of connections between Bismarck's domestic and foreign policies'.John Breuilly, University of Birmingham Table of ContentsChronology Preface Introduction 1. Early Days 2. Entry into politics 3. Diplomat with a difference 4. Minister in waiting 5. Prime minister 6. First triumph 7. Fratricidal war 8. High noon 9. Imperial chancellor 10. Turn to the right 11. Power prolonged 12. Fall and resentful retirement Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kennedy here presents a full study, the first, of immigrant – metic – women in Classical Athens, seeking to delineate their legal status, their vulnerabilities and their work. In so doing she must also identify and strip away the prejudices with which these women were viewed, prejudices so powerful and widespread that most previous scholars have taken them as statements of fact. In this effort she has been, in my judgment, very successful. This book, brisk and clear, makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of both metic status and the position and perceptions of women in Athens." - Journal of Hellenic Studies"This book certainly raises many questions about metic women, who they were individually as well as their identification as a group. By bringing metic women to the foreground of analysis, it successfully highlights the ancient ideological biases, allowing modern scholars to see the evidence with fresh eyes." - Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought“[Kennedy’s] interpretation breaks down Athenian ideological constraints that have over-influenced modern scholarship on metic women. By distinguishing metic women from citizen women and prostitutes, this book does an important service to studies of women in Athens." - The Classical Journal Online"This book is an important contribution because studies of gender in Graeco-Roman antiquity rarely account for racial or ethnic difference. Throughout the book, there is a great deal of source criticism and, at the same time, an excellent self-reflexive perspective on classical scholarship…an insightful analysis on the complexity of difference in classical Athens." - Rosetta"With clear and punchy prose, Kennedy provides a helpful overview ofthe experiences of immigrant women and the structures that emerged to classify them. Her key concerns are to demystify the idea that they were all prostitutes, and to unpack Athenian social prejudices affecting female metics and our (mis)perceptions of these women." - David Roselli, Scripps College, Classical WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Metic Women, Citizenship, and Marriage in Athenian Law 2. The Ideology of the Metic Woman 3. Aspasia, Athenian Citizen Elites, and the Myth of the Courtesan 4. The Dangers of the Big City 5. Working Women, not ‘Working Girls’

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Book SynopsisMarc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and dismantle a social structure.' In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of students and historians to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. At its heart lies a magisterial account of relations of lord and vassal, and the origins of the nature of the fief, brought to life through compelling accounts of the nobility, knighthood and chivalry, family relations, political and legal institutions, and the church. For Bloch history was a process of constant movement and evolution and he describes throughout the slow process by which feudal societies turned into what would become nation states. A tour de force of historical writing, Feudal Society is essential reading for anyone interested in both Western Europe's past and prTrade Review‘…one of those rare books of impeccable scholarship which no intelligent person could possibly read without pleasure and interest and excitement.’ – Geoffrey Barraclough, The Observer‘…a book for every intelligent reader interested in the living past of Europe.’ C.V.Wedgwood, The Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition. Introduction: Gerneral scope of the Enquiry. Part One: The Environment - The Last Invasions. i. Moslems and Hungarians. ii. The Northmen. iii. Some Consequences. Part Two: The Environment: Conditions of Life and Menatl Climate. iv. Material conditions and Economic Characteristics. v. Modes of Feeling and Thought. vi. The Folk Memory. vii. The Intellectual Renaissance in the Second Feudal Age. viii. The Foundations of Law. Part Three: The Ties Between Man and Man: Kinship. ix. The Solidarity of the Kindred Group. x.Characher and Vicissitudes of The Tie of Kinship. Part Four: The Ties between Man and Man: Vassalage and the Fief. xi. Vassal Homage. xii. The Feif. xiii. General Survey of Europe. xiv. The Fief Becomes The Patrimony of the Vassal. xv. The Man of Several Masters. xvi. Vassal and Lord. xvii. Tha Paradox of Vassalage. Part Five: Ties of Dependenceamong the Lower Orders of Society. xviii. The Manor. xix Servitude and Freedom. xx. Towards New Forms of Manorialism. Part Six: Social Classes. xxi. The Nobles As A 'De Facto' Class. xxii. The Life of the Nobility. xxiii. Chivalry. xxiv. Transformation of the Nobility into a Legal Class. xxv. Class Distinctionswith the Nobility. xxvi. Clergy and Bergesses. Part Seven: Political Organization. xxvii. Judicial Instituations. xxviii. The Traditional Powers: Kingdoms and Empire. xxix. From Territorial Principalities to Castellanies. xxx. Disorder and The Efforts to Combat It. xxxi. Towards the Reconstruction of States: Natioanl Developments. Part Eight: Feudalism as a Type of Society and Its Influence. xxxii. Feudalism as a Type of Society. xxxiii. The Persistence of Eurpean Feudalism.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14.Trade Review"The current text is a valuable contribution to the field as it covers the Roman Republic, the dynastic period and the rise of Augustus in just over 750 pages...this is an expertly written and highly recommended text." - The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; List of maps; List of genealogical trees; Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary; Some useful definitions; List of Roman consuls 88 BC–AD 14; Genealogical (family) trees; 1 Early Republican Rome: 507–264 BC; 2 The Public Face of Rome; 3 Religion in the Roman Republic; 4 The Punic Wars; 5 Rome’s Mediterranean Empire; 6 Slaves and Freedmen; 7 Women, Sexuality and the Family; 8 Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus; 9 Gaius Marius; 10 The ‘Social’ War ; 11 Lucius Cornelius Sulla ‘Felix’; 12 The Collapse of the Republic; 13 The Civil War and Caesar's Dictatorship; 14 Octavian’s Rise to Power; 15 The Age of Augustus; Index

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Book SynopsisThis was the first book which globally surveyed the impact of the Second World War on schooling. It offers fascinating comparisons of the impact of total war, both in terms of physical disruption and its effects on the ideology of schooling. By analysing the effects on the education systems of each of the participant nations the contributors throw new light on the responses made in different parts of the globe to the challenge of world-wide conflict. Table of ContentsEducation in England during World War II, Roy Lowe; schooling for little soldiers - German education in World War II, Geoffrey Giles; Soviet schools in the great patriotic war, John Dunstan; schooling Uncle Sam's children - education in the USA, 1941-45, Ronald D. Cohen; education in wartime Japan, 1937-45, Richard Rubinger; Italian education during World War II - remnants of failed Fascist education, seeds of the new schools, Richard J. Wolff; war and educational reconstruction in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, 1940-47, Guy Neave; education as resistance - the Polish experience of schooling during the war, Jozef Krasuski; war and peace - the effects of World War II on Hungarian education, Attila Horvath; the impact of World War II on education in Britain's colonial empire, Clive Whitehead; World War II and the secondary school curriculum - a comparative study of the USA and Australia, Andrew Spaull; the Scottish school system, educational reform and World War II, John Lloyd; "Our dear Channel Islands" - a survey of education in Jersey during the German occupation, 1940-45, Janet Likeman; re-education - remedial training in democratic modes of thought and behaviour - the re-education scheme of the British military government in the administrative district of Cologne (1946), Hans Jurgen Apel.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars.Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews about the call up, their personal reactions to war, their feelings about pay and the company at work, the effects of war on their health, their relations with men and their home lives; they speak too about how demobilisation affected them, and how they spent the years between two World Wars.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction Part 1: The First World War 2. Women Before 1914 3. Dilution; Women in "Men’s Jobs" 4. War Work 5. Health and Welfare 6. Domestic Life 7. Demobilisation 1918-20 Part 2: The Second World War 8. Women Between the Wars 9. Call Up 10. Dilution Again 11. On the Job 12. Love, Sex and Marriage 13. Health and Welfare 14. Double Burden 15. Demobilisation 1945-50 16. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisForty years of confrontation in Europe have produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the ending of the Warsaw pact, planning and analysis specialists have had to look again at the basic principles of war: there is no sure ground any more. The analysis of threat and response has been transformed and new patterns of likely action, such as the Gulf intervention, have been accommodated. In practical terms, this affects what is taught to both new officers and senior officers about to assume command responsibilities. The essays in the Science of War attempt to develop a broader understanding of the factors that operate at the higher levels of war, and to study the operational level of war from a general, speculative and penetrating viewpoint. Many contributors also attempt to integrate military theory and historical experience. The aim throughout is to lay down a theoretical grounding in the principles of the planning and conduct of war at the operTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface, Introduction, 1 THE LESSONS OF THE 1920s AND MODERN EXPERIENCE, 2 THE CONTRIBUTION OF ORIGINALITY TO MILITARY SUCCESS, 3 ECONOMY OF EFFORT: A PASSIVE PRINCIPLE, 4 LIDDELL HART AND THE INDIRECT APPROACH TO STRATEGY, 5 BURMA, 1943–5: WHAT LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE?, 6 INCREASING TEMPO ON THE MODERN BATTLEFIELD, 7 DEPTH FIREPOWER: THE VIOLENT, ENABLING ELEMENT, 8 THE FUTURE OF SURPRISE ON THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD, 9 THE IMPACT OF THE MEDIA ON THE PROSECUTION OF CONTEMPORARY WARFARE, 10 A STUDY OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE NEEDS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, Index

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Book SynopsisIn Uniting the Kingdom? a group of the most distinguished historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the present. Traditional chronological and regional frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and modernists debate the key issues of the British state: the conflicting historiographies, the nature of political tensions and the themes of expansion and contraction. This outstanding collection of essays forms an illuminating introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British histories and identities.Trade Review'A stimulating collection of essays.' - Nothern History`A fascinating, provocative and very timely book, Uniting the Kingdom? raises questions which are of relevance to us all, even if the answers implied may not be entirely to anybody's liking.' - The Scotsman`Excellent collection of essays.' - Alain de Botton, Independent on SundayTable of ContentsPart I Prologue 1 Introduction: The enigma of British History 2 British History as a ‘new subject’: Politics, perspectives and prospects Part II Medieval foundations 3 The United Kingdom of England: The Anglo-Saxon achievement 4 Foundations of a disunited kingdom 5 Overlordship and reaction, c. 1200–c. 1450 6 Scottish foundations: Thirteenth-century perspectives Late medieval contributions Part III Building the early modern state 7 The High Road from Scotland: Stewarts and Tudors in the mid-sixteenth century, One king, two kingdoms, 8 Composite monarchies in early modern Europe: The British and Irish example 9 Irish, Scottish and Welsh responses to centralisation, c. 1530–c. 1640: A comparative perspective 10 Three kingdoms and one commonwealth? The enigma of mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland Part IV The age of Union 11 Varieties of Britishness: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian state 12 A nation defined by Empire, 1755–1776 13 Englishness and Britishness: National identities, c. 1790–c. 1870 14 An imperial and multinational polity: The ‘scene from the centre’, 1832–1922 15 Letting go: The Conservative Party and the end of the Union with Ireland Part V Epilogue 16 How united is the modern United Kingdom? 17 Conclusion: Contingency, identity, sovereignty

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Book SynopsisStephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - ''New Historicism'' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch. Trade Review'Greenblatt writes with modest elegance, is a superb scholar and researcher, and deserves his status as the first voice in Renaissance studies today.' – Virginia Quarterly ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Learning to Curse 3. Marlowe, Marx and Anti-Semitism 4. Filthy Rites 5. The Cultivation of Anxiety 6. Murdering Peasants 7. Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture 8. Towards a Poetics of Culture 9. Resonance and Wonder. Index

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Book SynopsisThe title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalystâs couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ. Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.Trade Review'The thrill of reading Zizek ... arises in part from the collision between the insanity he finds everywhere in our psychic and social lives and the rigorous clarity with which he anatomizes its workings.'- Lingua Franca'The thrill of reading Zizek... arises in part from the collision between the insanity he finds everywhere in our psychic and social lives and the rigorous clarity with which he anatomizes its workings.'- Lingua FrancaTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Revised Edition Introduction 1. Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination? 1.1 Death and Sublimation: The Final Scene of City Lights 1.2 Imaginary, Symbolic, Real 2. Why Is Woman a Symptom of Man? 2.1 Why is Suicide the Only Successful Act? 2.2 The Night of the World 3. Why is Every Act a Repetition 3.1 Beyond Distributive Justice 3.2 Identity and Authority 4. Why Does the Phallus Appear? 4.1 Grimaces of the Real 4.2 Phallaphany of the Anal Father 5. Why Are There Always Two Fathers 5.1 At The Origins of Noir: The Humiliated Father 5.2 Die Versagung 6. Why is Reality Always Multiple? 6.1 Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film? 6.2 The Matrix, Or, the Two Sides of Perversion Index

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Book SynopsisTen years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially commissioned articles, emphasizing the intersections of the Web 2.0, digital cultures, globalization, visual arts and media, and the visualizations of war. The volume attests to the maturity and exciting development of this cutting-edge field.Fully illustrated throughout, The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of what editor Nicholas Mirzoeff calls critical visuality studies. It develops into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor, with an emphasis on global coverage. Each thematic section includes suggestions for further reading. Thematic sections include: Expansions War and Violence Attention and Visualizing Economy BTrade Review'This volume is required reading for anyone interested in media studies or visual culture. It brings critical visuality studies up to the moment and introduces new directions for future work. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.' - A. M. Laflen, Marist College in CHOICE 'This is a first rate collection covering the range and the depth of critical visual studies today. An essential guide for anyone concerned with the power of the image and the image of power.' - McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, USA 'This 3rd edition of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s The Visual Culture Reader is unrecognizable from the collection’s first edition published way back in the last millennium. Its content, character, and urgency are invigorating and galvanizing. If the Reader’s first edition gave shape to Visual Culture Studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this 3rd edition will, I believe, mould visual culture itself.' - Marquard Smith, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture & Director of Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, UK 'With this volume, Mirzoeff has assembled an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of visual culture across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Combining foundational texts and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship, the Third Edition of the VCR charts the emergence of critical visuality studies and brings the field into the twenty-first century.' - A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester, USA Table of ContentsPART 1 Expansions Chapter 1: "There are No Visual Media" W. J. T. Mitchell Chapter 2: "The (In)human condition: A Visual Essay" Ariella Azoulay Chapter 3: "Mapping Non-Conformity: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies" Teddy Cruz Chapter 4: "X-reality: Interview with the Virtual Cannibal" Beth Coleman Chapter 5: "On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge" Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Chapter 6: "Notes on the Photographic Image" Jacques Rancière Chapter 7: "Queer Faces: Photography and Subcultural Lives" J. Jack Halberstam Chapter 8: "Currents of Worldmaking in Contemporary Art" Terence E. Smith Chapter 9: "Sublimated with Mineral Fury: Prelim Notes on Sounding Pandemonium Asia" Sarat Maharaj Chapter 10: "The Sea and the Land: Biopower and Visuality after Katrina" Nicholas Mirzoeff PART 2: GLOBALIZATION, WAR AND VISUAL ECONOMY War and Violence Chapter 11: "The Archaeology of Violence: The King’s Head" Zainab Bahrani Chapter 12: "The Actuarial Gaze: from 9-11 to Abu Ghraib" Allen Feldman Chapter 13: "American Military Imaginaries and Iraqi cities" Derek Gregory Chapter 14: "Zeroing In: Overheard Imagery, Infrastructure Ruins, and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq" Lisa Parks Chapter 15: "What Greg Roberts Saw: Visuality, Intelligibility, and Sovereignty - 36,000km Over the Equator." Trevor Paglen Chapter 16: "Media and Martyrdom" Faisal Devji Chapter 17: "Live True Life or Die Trying" Naeem Mohaiemen Attention and Visualizing Economy Chapter 18: "Kino I, Kino World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production" Jonathan L. Beller Chapter 19: "On Virtuosity" Paolo Virno Chapter 20: "Faking Globalization" Ackbar Abbas Chapter 21: "Creativity and the Problem of Free Labor" Andrew Ross Chapter 22: "It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" Mark Fisher Chapter 23: "Do It Yourself Geo-Politics" Brian Holmes PART 3: THE BODY, COLONIALITY AND VISUALITY Bodies and Minds Chapter 24: "Optics" René Descartes Chapter 25: "Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye-Witness Account" Georgina Kleege Chapter 26: "Reduplicative Desires" Carol Mavor Chapter 27: "The Persistence of Vision" Donna Haraway Chapter 28: "The body and/in representation" Amelia Jones Chapter 29: "Mami Wata: A Transoceanic Water Spirit of Global Modernity" Henry Drewal Histories and Memories Chapter 30: "The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flâneur/Flâneuse" Anne Friedberg Chapter 31: "Tourism and Sacred Ground: The Space of Ground Zero" Marita Sturken Chapter 32: "Maps, Mother/Goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India" Sumathi Ramaswamy Chapter 33: "Museums in Late Democracies" Dipesh Chakrabarty Chapter 34: "The Fact of Blackness" Frantz Fanon Chapter 35: "The Case of Blackness" Fred Moten (Post/De/Neo)Colonial Visualities Chapter 36: "Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order" Timothy Mitchell Chapter 37: "The Colonial Harem" Malek Alloula Chapter 38: "Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade" Suzanne Preston Blier Chapter 39: "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum," Finbarr Barry Flood Chapter 40: "The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition." Okwui Enwezor Chapter 41: "Urban Warfare: Walking Through Walls" Eyal Weizman PART 4: MEDIA AND MEDIATIONS Chapter 42: "U.S. Operating Systems at Midcentury: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX" Tara McPherson Chapter 43: "Rethinking the Digital Age" Faye Ginsburg Chapter 44: "The Unworkable Interface" Alex Galloway Chapter 45: "On the Superiority of the Analog" Brian Massumi Chapter 46: "Race 2.0: Neoliberal Colorblindness in the Age of Participatory Media" Lisa Nakamura Chapter 47: "Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging" Lisa Cartwright and Morana Alac

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Book SynopsisAn Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these âdematerialisationsâ, this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and 3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is, like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised. Table of Contents1. Introduction Chapter 2: Immateriality and the Ascetic Object in late Antiquity 3: The Christian Ascetic Object and the Reformation 4. The Reformation 5. The Twentieth Century

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Book SynopsisLudwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, composed in a series of remarkable numbered propositions, was the only book he published in his lifetime. He tackles nothing less than the question of whether there is such a thing as a logically perfect language and, armed with it, what we can say about the nature of the world itself. Pushing the limits of language, logic and philosophy, the Tractatus is a brilliant, cryptic and hypnotic tour de force, exerting a major impact on twentieth-century philosophy and stirring the imagination today.With a new foreword by Ray Monk.Table of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Great Minds Edition 1. Translators' Preface 2. Introduction by Bertrand Russell 3. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Preface 4. Translation Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual education.Rethinking the Chicano Movement provides an astute and accessible introduction to this vital grassroots movement. Bringing together different fields of research, this comprehensive yet concise narrative considers the Chicano Movement as a national, not just regional, phenomenon, and places it alongside the other important social movements of the era. Rodriguez details the many different facets of the Chicano movement, including college campuses, third-party politics, media, and art, and traces the development and impact of one of the most important post-WWII social movements in the United States.Trade Review"With Rethinking the Chicano Movement, Marc Simon Rodriguez has artfully placed El Movimiento into its rightful place in American civil rights history. Rethinking is a critical addition to the undergraduate classroom, a significant reinterpretation of the movement’s legacy, and an exceptional read for anyone interested in Mexican American and civil rights history. This book is a must read."—Michael Innis-Jiménez, author of Steel Barrio: Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940"This book offers a compelling narrative of the Chicano movement, bringing to light its broad history, successes and limitations, as well as much new information on the struggle. Rethinking the Chicano Movement is a tremendously ambitious and important work."—Brian D. Behnken, author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas"Rodriguez has written an interesting and fresh interpretation of the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is an exciting book combining dramatic chapters with an insightful and balanced analysis. Historians will welcome this superbly rendered synthesis. It is ideally suited for students seeking to understand the social ferment that surrounded the Chicano struggle for equality and justice."—Zaragosa Vargas, author of Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican America from Colonial Times to the PresentTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mexican Americanism and the Long Chicano MovementChapter 1: A Growing Militancy: The Farm Workers in California and Political Activism in TexasChapter 2: The New Urban Politics: Chicanos and The War on PovertyChapter 3: Youth and the Campus: Chicano Students and Chicano EducationChapter 4: News and the Movement: Newspapers and Ideas in the Chicano MovementChapter 5: Art and the Movement: Chicano Murals and Community SpaceConclusion: Rethinking to Move ForwardBibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the bookâs initial publication. Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and psychology, this anthology provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of music and culture. It includes both pioneering theoretical essays and exhaustively researched case studies on particular issues in world musics. For the second edition, the original essays have been revised and nine new chapters have been added, covering themes such as race, religion, geography, technology, and the politics of music. With an even broader scope and a larger roster of world-renowned contributors, The Cultural Study of Music is certain to remain a canonical text in the field of cultural musicology.Trade Review"The strength of the text is its breadth of analysis: the essays are brief, pithy, and thought-provoking. Recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Music Studies and the Idea of Culture Richard Middleton Part 1: When? Musical Histories 1. Music and Biocultural Evolution Ian Cross 2. Music and Culture: Historiographies of Disjuncture, Ethnographies of Displacement Philip V. Bohlman 3. Historical Musicology: Is It Still Possible? Rob C. Wegman 4. Social History and Music History Trevor Herbert 5. Musicology, Anthropology, History Gary TomlinsonPart 2: Where? Locations of Music 6. Textual Analysis or Thick Description? Jeff Todd Titon 7. Comparing Music, Comparing Musicology Martin Clayton 8. The Destiny of “Diaspora” in Ethnomusicology Mark Slobin 9. Globalization and the Politics of World Music Martin Stokes 10. Contesting Difference: A Critique of Africanist Ethnomusicology Kofi Agawu 11. What a Difference a Name Makes: Two Instances of African-American Popular Music David Brackett 12. Music, Space, and Place: The Geography of Music Adam Krims 13. Music and Everyday Life Simon FrithPart 3: How? Processes, Practices, and Institutions of Music 14. Music, Culture, and Creativity Jason Toynbee 15. Musical Autonomy Revisited David Clarke 16. Music as Performance Nick Cook 17. The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments Kevin Dawe 18. Music Education, Cultural Capital, and Social Group Identity Lucy Green 19. Music Technology, or Technologies of Music? Bennett Hogg 20. Music and Material Culture Will StrawPart 4: Whose? Social Forces and Musical Belongings 21. Music and Social Categories John Shepherd 22. Music and Mediation: Toward a New Sociology of Music Antoine Hennion 23. Music and the Social Georgina Born 24. Locating the People: Music and the Popular Richard Middleton 25. Music and the Market: The Economics of Music in the Modern World Dave Laing 26. Music, Sound, and Religion Jeffers Engelhardt 27. Music, Race, and the Fields of Public Culture Ronald Radano 28. Music, Gender, and Sexuality Fred E. MausPart 5: Who? Musical subjectivities 29. What’s Going On: Music, Psychology, and Ecological Theory Eric F. Clarke 30. Musical Materials, Perception, and Listening Nicola Dibben 31. Music, Experience, and the Anthropology of Emotion Ruth Finnegan 32. Towards a Political Aesthetics of Music David Hesmondhalgh 33. Music and the Subject: Three Takes John Mowitt 34. Of Mice and Dogs: Music, Gender, and Sexuality at the Long Fin de Siècle Ian Biddle 35. Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture Lawrence Kramer

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Book SynopsisThe Modern African American Political Thought Reader compiles the work of great African American political thinkers throughout the twentieth century and up through today to show the development of black political thought and trace the interconnectedness of each person''s ideas through their own words. From abolition, through civil rights, Black nationalism, radical feminism, neo-conservativism, and the new Black Moderate, Angela Jones has collected the key readings of the most important figures in black political history.Each chapter includes an introduction to the themes of the chapter, a biographical sketch of the person profiled, and some of their greatest works, chosen to show the range of political subjects of interest to African Americans. From Radicals like Angela Y. Davis to Conservatives such as Michael Steele, this anthology showcases the diversity of political thought within the African American community. It is a must for anyone intereTrade ReviewThe Modern African American Political Thought Reader is an important and timely resource for the study of African American History and Culture.Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack ObamaCutting through the 'noise' of a new class of mainstream media pundits, The Modern African American Political Thought Reader provides a great social and intellectual service by connecting an illustrious past and present of African American thought production. The discourse, and the actions this discourse inspires, is an invaluable contribution to a much-needed delineation of the nuances within black historical and contemporary political thought. Most importantly, The Modern African American Political Thought Reader necessarily troubles our conception of "the" black community as a singular, unified entity. Instead, Jones' volume reveals the plurality and collisions of intellectual debate that are crucial to shaping a vital vision of African Americans with a linked destiny, but disparate strategies for achieving social justice.Kimberly Springer, author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Antebellum Era: the Rise of Abolitionism Chapter 1: David WalkerChapter 2: Maria StewartChapter 3: Frederick DouglassChapter 4: Anna Julia CooperPart II: Reconstruction and Beyond: Debates over the Negro Problem and the Creation of Civil Rights DiscourseChapter 5: Alexander CrummellChapter 6: Booker T. WashingtonChapter 7: Ida B. WellsChapter 8: William Monroe TrotterChapter 9: W.E.B. Du BoisChapter 10: A. Philip RandolphChapter 11: Bayard RustinTChapter 12: Mary McLeod BethuneChapter 13: Martin Luther King Jr. Part III: Black Nationalism: Its Roots and DevelopmentChapter 14: Martin Delaney Chapter 15: Henry McNeal TurnerChapter 16: Marcus GarveyChapter 17: Malcolm XChapter 18: Stokley Carmichael/Kwame ToureChapter 19: The Black Panthers: Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby SealePart IV: Black Radical FeminismChapter 20: Claudia JonesChapter 21: Florynce "Flo" KennedyChapter 22: Shirley ChisholmChapter 23: Angela Y. DavisPart V: Modern Black Conservatives: Why Black "Neo-Cons" Matter Chapter 24: Clarence ThomasChapter 25: Alan KeyesChapter 26: Michael SteeleChapter 27: Star ParkerPart VI: The New Black Moderate: Obama and Beyond Chapter 28: Barack Obama

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Book SynopsisIn Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of the Talented Tenth as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe.Trade Review"James represents an important voice in the current debate around the future of the race." -- Quarterly Black Reviewof Books"In her excellent discussion of the origins of the term 'talented tenth'...James follows its articulation by Du Bois from 1900 onward." -- Journal of American History"Transcending the Talented Tenth proposes original analyses of historical portrayals of the African American intelligentsia as a way of understanding the contested terrain on which contemporary black intellectuals work. At a time when the field of African American Studies is undergoing rapid transformations and the role of black public intellectuals is being passionately debated, Joy James' work is a pioneering intervention." -- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz"Americans have a hard time thinking about race, gender, and class at the same time, especially when intellectuals are in question. But not Joy James. Her refreshing discussion of black thought refuses to stop with men or the highly educated. This is what African-American Studies is about in the best sense of the phrase." -- Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University"Joy James has written an important book. Here is a work that lays to rest once and for all the dominant stereotype that African Americans lack a compelling intellectual legacy." -- David Theo Goldberg, author of Racist Culture"Drawing the lines of inter-connection between class, race and gender, Joy James gives to us an important handle on the common ground of struggle that engages all who would change this to a more just and equal society as we enter the 21st century." -- Charlene Mitchell, Committees of Correspondence"...James examines the increasingly larger role played by black intellectuals, their legacy and their responsibilities to their people." -- Publishers Weekly"Calling for a radicalism that engages the continuum of the black political struggle from the earliest slave rebellion to contemporary battles against racism and ehtnocentrism, James models the initial critique necessary for transcendence of the conventional talented tenth." -- SIGNS Spring 2000"A thoughtful study..." -- Library JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Foreword by Lewis R. Gordon, Preface, Introduction, Our Past: Historiography, Erasure, and Race Leadership, Chapter 1: The Talented Tenth Recalled, Chapter 2: Profeminism and Gender Elites: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Chapter 3 Sexual Polities: An Antilynching Crusader in Revisionist Feminism, Chapter 4: Disappearing Race Women and Civil Rights Radicals, The Present Future: Contemporary Crises and Black Intellectuals, Chapter 5: On Racial Violence and Democracy, Chapter 6: The Common Program: Race, Class, Sex, and Politics, Chapter 7: Captive Theorists and Community Caretakers: Women and Academic Intellectualism, Chapter 8: Elite Educators and the Heroie Intellectual, Conclusion: Radicalism and Black Intellectual Life, Notes, Index

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Book SynopsisThis readable yet sophisticated survey of treaty-making between Native and European Americans before 1800, recovers a deeper understanding of how Indians tried to forge a new society with whites on the multicultural frontiers of North America-an understanding that may enlighten our own task of protecting Native American rights and imagining racial justice.Trade Review"Linking Arms Together is a small book with a large message. Investigating Native American treaty negotiations with European colonists, Robert Williams, Jr., has found in that diplomatic culture certain habits of thought that helped natives and newcomers, in their better moments, find common ground, and a common humanity. His exploration of that long-ago world when diverse peoples struggled to get along offers important lessons for our own multicultural age." -- James H. Merrell, Vassar College"...makes a good start at reconstructing Indian legal thought...well worth reading for anyone interested in the relationship between law and multiculturalism." -- Western Historical Quarterly"...offers a compelling description of Indian diplomatic visions and methods...a rich addition to the literature." -- Jill Norgren, The Law and Politics ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Paradigms for Behavior1. National Mythologies and American Indians2. Treaties as Sacred Texts3. Treaties as Connections4. Treaties as Stories5. Treaties as ConstitutionsConclusion: Understanding American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and PeaceNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed range from the Zapatista movement's use of the web to promote their cause globally to the establishment of alternative media sources like indymedia.org to the direct action of hacktivists who disrupt commercial computer networks. Cyberactivism is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the impact of the Internet on politics today.Trade Review"Here's a book with a plethora of information. I was surprised at a thing or two in this book that I wasn't aware of. I was also intrigued by some of the thought-provoking questions raised about the perceived separation between the 'real' world and the 'fake' cyber-world. Very intriguing indeed, especially for academics and theorists. I found Cyberactivism to be fascinating with many resources for those who may be thinking about or already using the net to increase their audience." -- Altar Magazine"This is one of the first books to back up theoretical assertions regarding online democracy with vivid and fascinating examples from the anti-globalization movement, ethnic and sexual identity websites, and hactivist and tactical media histories. Cyberactivism features great storytelling and it is refreshingly grounded, pragmatic, and accessible. As the Internet becomes co-opted by media industry giants, it is increasingly vital that pockets of resistance to media hegemony be identified and studied. This book is a fine primer for those interested in studying how activism has happened on the Internet, and how it might happen in the future." -- Lisa Nakamura, University of Wisconsin, Madison"It's about time we saw a concentrated examination of online activism in book form...Cyberactivism is a vital contribution to Internet Studies as well as a welcome antidote to the commercialization of the internet. By critically examining the political forces that shape the internet, this book brings to the foreground those elements of technology that constrain as well as enable individual and group action." -- Annette N. Markham, University of Illinois at Chicago"The contributors do not deal solely with the empowering aspects of the internet; the struggles they describe are poignant reminders of the politically volatile and overtly commercialized social structures we live in. Yet one completes the book feeling hopeful, realizing the extent to which the internet can engender the potential to resist hegemony in everyday life as well as across the globe. We know better than to believe that the internet is inherently democratic, but this book reminds us that the potential for collective action is strong." -- Annette N. Markham, University of Illinois at Chicago"There is nothing quite like this book. This wonderful collection of case studies calls attention to the use of the internet as a new stage in the history of social movements around the globe. Cyberactivism is must reading for activists and social movement scholars." -- Verta Taylor Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara"This is one of the first books to back up theoretical assertions regarding online democracy with vivid and fascinating examples from the anti-globalization movement, ethnic and sexual identity websites, and hactivist and tactical media histories. Cyberactivism features great storytelling and it is refreshingly grounded, pragmatic, and accessible. As the Internet becomes co-opted by media industry giants, it is increasingly vital that pockets of resistance to media hegemony be identified and studied. This book is a fine primer for those interested in studying how activism has happened on the Internet, and how it might happen in the future." -- Lisa Nakamura, University of Wisconsin, Madison"This is one of the first books to back up theoretical assertions regarding online democracy with vivid and fascinating examples from the anti-globalization movement, ethnic and sexual identity websites, and hactivist and tactical media histories. Cyberactivism features great storytelling and it is refreshingly grounded, pragmatic, and accessible. As the Internet becomes co-opted by media industry giants, it is increasingly vital that pockets of resistance to media hegemony be identified and studied. This book is a fine primer for those interested in studying how activism has happened on the Internet, and how it might happen in the future." -- Lisa Nakamura, University of Wisconsin, Madison"This is an important book for students of cyberactivism and cyberculture, and indeed might well appeal to many of the cyberactivists themselves. As one of the fist volumes on the topic, it is an important contribution to what is now a growing movement and literature on cyberactivism. As Silver notes, the book provides a 'blueprint' for future politics and research." -- NewMedia & SocietyTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Cyber-Social Movements Emerging Online 1. Internet Protests, from Text to Web 2. Indymedia.org: A New Communication Commons 3. Classifying Forms of Online Activism: the Case of Cyberprotests Against the World Bank 4. The Radicalization of Zek Speir: How the Internet Contributes to Civic Engagement and New Forms of Social Capital Theorizing Online Activism 5. Democracy, New Social Movements, and the Internet: A Habermasian Analysis 6. Comparing Collective Identity in Onlien and Offline Feminist Acivists 7. Mapping Networks of Support for Zapatista Movement: Applying Social Networks Analysis to Study Cotemporary Social Movements 8. Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet, and the Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement 9. Wiring human-Rights Activism: Amnesty International and the Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies 10. Ethic Online Communities: Between Profit and Purpose 11. Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, The New Gay conglomerates, and Collective Sexual Identities Epilogue Current Directions and Future Questions Subject: Philosophy; General Interest; History; Cultural Studies

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Book Synopsis'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - ArtforumKeeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. Drawing upon the traditions of Western philosophy and modernity, Cornel West critiques structures of power and oppression as they operate within American society and provides a way of thinking about human dignity and difference afresh. Impressive in its scope, West confidently and deftly explores the politics and philosophy of America, the role of the black intellectual, legal theory and the future of liberal thought, and the fate of African Americans. A celebration of the extraordinary lives of ordinary Americans, Keeping Faith is a petition to hope and a call to faith in the redemptivTable of ContentsPreface: The Difficulty of Keeping Faith. Cultural Criticism and Race 1. The New Cultural Politics of Difference 2. Black Critics and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation 3. A Note on Race and Architecture 4. Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism 5. The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual. Philosophy and Political Engagement 6. Theory, Pragmatisms and Politics 7. Pragmatism and the Sense of the Tragic 8. The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion 9. The Limits of Neopragmatism 10. On Georg Lukacs 11. Fredric Jameson's American Marxism. Law and Culture 12. Reassessing the Critical Legal Studies Movement 13. Critical Legal Studies and a Liberal Critic 14. Charles Taylor and the Critical Legal Studies Movement 15. The Role of Law in Progressive Politics. Explaining Race 16. Race and Social Theory 17. The Paradox of the African American Rebellion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began--her old Kentucky home. hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class; and in this book she turns her attention to focus on issues of land and land ownership. Reflecting on the fact that 90% of all black people lived in the agrarian South before mass migration to northern cities in the early 1900s, she writes about black farmers, about black folks who have been committed both in the past and in the present to local food production, to being organic, and to finding solace in nature. Naturally, it would be impossible to contemplate these issues without thinking about the politics of race and class. Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning. In these critical essays, hooks finds surprising connections that link of the environment and sustainability to the politics of race and class that reach far beyond Kentucky.With characteristic insight and honesty, Belonging offers a remarkable vision of a world where all people--wherever they may call home--can live fully and well, where everyone can belong. Table of Contents1. PREFACE: to know where I’m going2. kentucky is my fate3. mountains: consumed by suffering4. touching the earth5. reclamation and reconciliation6. to be whole and holy7. again – segregation must end8. representations of whiteness in the black imagination9. drive through tobacco10. earthbound: on solid ground11. an aesthetics of blackness: strange and oppositional12. inspired eccentricity13. a place where the soul can rest14. aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand15. piecing it all together16. on being a kentucky writer17. returning to the wound18. healing talk: a conversation19. take back the night – remake the present20. habits of the heart21. a community of care

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Book SynopsisUndoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to do one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies undoing dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the New Gender Politics that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.Trade Review"Though Butler has published pleanty...it's her most recent book, Undoing Gender, that's done me in once again...[It is] perhaps Butler's most accessible work."--HerIzons, Winter 2006, Vol 19 No 3Table of ContentsUndoing Gender

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Book SynopsisWhen women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news, writes bell hooks. If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse.In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title--We Real Cool; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth. Her subject is taboo: this is a culture that does not love black males: they are not loved by white men, white women, black women, girls or boys. And especially, black men do not love themselves. How could they? How could they be expected to love, surrounded by so much envy, desire, and hate?Trade Review"We Real Cool is a slim book, but it's fat (or phat) with ideas on how to encourage black men to be their real selves in the truest sense of the word." -- Karen Grigsby Bates, Ms. Winter"I read the first page of the preface holding my nose because I am sick of listening to others tell me who I am. I am out of patience with being the topic of someone's ill-informed master's thesis, dissertation, newspaper feature and magazine article. As I read on, though, Hooks put me at ease with her insight, honesty and clear prose...hooks writes to bring attention to the crossroads at which the black male stands. On one side is his very survival and perhaps his redemption. On the other is his enduring marginalization and even extinction." -- Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times"The black American feminist writer-critic and social commentator bell hooks is strong meat. Take the way she spells her name, militantly lower case. She uses terms that can scare the horses: imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy. It can never be said of this writer that she doesn't set her shop-stall up right from the beginning. In her latest work, We Real Cool: BlackMen and Masculinity, hooks states in the preface that these incendiary terms are her terms of reference." -- The IndependentTable of Contents1. Preface: about black men: don't believe the hype2. chapter 1: plantation patriarchy3. chapter 2: gangsta culture: a piece of the action4. chapter 3: schooling black men5. chapter 4: don't make me hurt you: black male violence6. chapter 5: it's a dick thing: beyond sexual acting out7. chapter 6: from angry boys to angry me8. chapter 7: waiting for daddy to come home9. chapter 8: doing the love do10. chapter 9: healing the hurt11. chapter 10: the coolness of being real

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Book SynopsisWhat can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait.“[An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging, including the verve with which it tackles that teased final mystery about the specific cause of Alexander’s death.”—The Christian Science Monitor More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater kingdom of Macedonia to the Hellenic world, Persia, and ultimately to India—all before his untimely death at age thirty-three. Alexander believed that his empire would stop only when he reached the Pacific Ocean. But stories of both real and legendary events from his life have kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that has

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Book SynopsisHistory in Progress features clearly differentiated tasks that are designed to support and encourage the progression of pupils of all ability levels. A wealth of stimulating activities and accessible information will motivate your pupils and fill them with confidence, whilst building the key historical skills necessary for GCSE.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive resource that helps candidates tackle the intricacies of the relationship between Hitler and his lieutenants and the power structure of the Nazi state. This book has been written for Edexcel and with the right level of depth for A2.Table of ContentsHow to use this book Introduction The ideological state The establishment of the Nazi State The Hitler state The terror state The propaganda state The foreign Policy state: expansion and war The racial state: anti-Semitism Constant and opposition to the state The party stage The economic state Society A2 Assessment Nazi documents Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisA study of Germany between 1848 and 1890 for AS and A Level History students. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The two AS sections deal with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the margin, and summary boxes to help students assimilate the information. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level examination by concentrating on analysis and historians'' interpretations of the material covered in the AS sections. There are practice questions and hints and tips on what makes a good answer.Table of ContentsAS SECTION: NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATION Germany 1848-1914 - 1 Germany in 1848 2 The 1848 revolutions 3 Germany after the 1848 revolutions 4 The unification of Germany 1862-70 5 Politics in the German Reich, 1871-9 6 Economic and social change, 1871-90 7 Bismarck's anti-socialist campaign, 1878-90 8 Bismarck's foreign policy, 1871-90 9 The fall of Bismarck 10 Germay under Wilhelm II, 1890-1914 AS Assessment: Germany 1848-1914 A2 SECTION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Germany 1848-90 - 1 Why did the German revolutions of 1848 fail? 2 Why was German unification achieved through Prussian victory? 3 How united was the German Reich? 4 How successful was German foreign policy, 1871-90 5 What was Bismarck's legacy A2 Assessment: Germany 1848-90

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Book SynopsisA study of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level examination.Table of ContentsAS SECTION: NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATION Russia in revolution, 1905-17 - 1 Tsarist Russia 1905-14 2 The impact of the First World War and teh collapse of Tsarism, 1914-17 3 The problems of the Provisional Government 4 The Bolshevik Revolution, October 1917 The consolidation of Bolshevik power: Russia, 1918 -29 - 5 The consolidation of Bolshevik rule, 1918-24 6 Economic policy - War Communism and the NEP 7 Soviet society and culture under Lenin 8 Safeguarding the Revolution: the struggle for power after Lenin's death, 1924-9 9 Soviet foreign policy, 1917-28 AS Assessment A2 SECTION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION The Russian Revolutin and the establishment of Bolshevik power - 1 Why did the Tsarist regime collapse in 1917? 2 How and why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in 1917? 3 What direction did Bolshevik ideology and tactics take between 1903 and 1917? 4 To what extent did pratical difficulties stop Lenin from implementing communist ideology? 5 What was the nature of the Bolshevik state? 6 How important was the role of Lenin? 7 How and why did Stalin manage to secure power by 1929? A2 Assessment

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Book SynopsisA study of civil rights in the USA. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level examination.Table of ContentsAS SECTION: CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE USA, 1863-1968 America - 'land of the free'? Towards a kind of freedom, 1863-77 Race relations and civil rights, 1877-1917 The inter-war years, 1920-41 The Second World War and civil rights Post-war changes and the Civil Rights Movement The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the emergence of Martin Luther King, 1955-6 Further protests in the south Success for the Civil Rights Movement, 1963-5 Changes in the Civil Rights Movement, 1965-6 The origins, nature and effects of Black Power The achievements of the Civil Rights Movement AS AssessmentA2 SECTION: CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE USA, 1863-1980 The politics of freedom and equality The struggle for black civil rights, 1865-1968 The rights of labour The growing militancy of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-80 America - 'the melting pot' A2 Assessment

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Book SynopsisContaining sample exam questions at both AS and A2 levels, this text aims to show students what makes a good answer and why it scores high marks. It should help students grasp the difference between a GCSE and an A-level mark in history.Table of ContentsAS SECTION: NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATION - 1 The Weaknesses of Liberal Italy 2 Fascism's appeal, 1919-22 3 Consolidating the fascist regime, 1922-5 4 Fascist political life, 1925-43 5 Fascist Italy: the economy 6 Fascist society 7 Italian foreign policy, 1922-40 8 Italy at War AS Assessment A2 SECTION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION - 1 Why did Mussolini become prime minister in 1922? 2 Why was Mussolini able to acquire dictatorial powers? 3 What were the main features of fascism? 4 Was fascist Italy a totalitarian state? 5 What was Mussolini's Role in the fascist state? 6 Analysing fascist Italy: central issues 7 Analysing Italian foreign policy, 1935-40 A2 Assessment

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Book SynopsisThis series supports the AS and A-Levels starting September 2000. The series provides coverage of all the most popular topics, so you can cover the whole of the specification with up-to-date resources. This text concentrates on the Cold War.Table of ContentsAS SECTION: NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATIONThe Cold War in Europe 1945-91 1 The seeds of conflict 1941-5 2 The Cold War in Europe 1945-50 3 The Soviet orbit: eastern Europe 1945-80 4 The collapse of Soviet control over eastern Europe 1980-91 The Cold War in Asia and the Americas 1949-755 US Foreign policy in the 1950s 6 The Korean War 1950-3 7 The Vietnam War I: Escalation 1945-68 8 The Vietnam War II: US failure and withdrawal 1968-75 9 The Cuban Missile Crisis AS AssessmentA2 SECTION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATIONCold War to Detente 1945-911 What were the causes of the Cold War? 2 What were Stalin's motives for Soviet expansion in Europe? 3 Why did East-West relations change between 1948 and 1962? 4 What was the nature of the conflict during the Cold War? 5 What were the casuses and achievements of Detente? 6 Why, and how, did superpower rivalry change between 1979 and 1991? Containing communism: the USA in Asia 1945-73 7 For what reasons, and with what results did the USA intervene in the Korean War? 8 What was the significance of the French withdrawal from South East Asia for the conflict between capitalism and communism? 9 By what means, and for what reasons did the USA participate in the Vietnam War? 10 What was the response of the American people to the Vietnam War and to what extent did this influence its outcome? A2 Assessment

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Book SynopsisThis resource is written for for students studying the economic and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the nature of Russian government and its impact on the Russian people in this period.Table of ContentsHow to use this book AS Section: Narrative and Explanation 1 Tsarist Russia, 1856-1914 2 War and revolution, 1914-21 3 Stalin's USSR, 1921-53 4 Reform and stagnation, 1953-85 A2 Section: Analysis and Interpretation Part 1: Tsarist and revolutionary Russia, 1856-1924 1 How significant were the reforms of Alexander II? 2 To what extent were movements for reform and revolution a threat to the tsarist regimes before 1905? 3 How significant was economic and social change in Russia before 1914? 4 How stable was the tsarist regime in 1914? 5 Why was Russia's performance in the First World War so disastrous? 6 Why were there two revolutions in Russia in 1917? 7 How and why did Lenin succeed in staying in power between 1917 and 1924? Part 2: Stalinist Russia, 1924-53 1 How did Stalin become leader of the USSR by 1929? 2 How fundamentally was the USSR changed by the Stalinist revolution of 1928-41? 3 Why did a totalitarian regime develop in the USSR by 1941? 4 What impact did the war of 1941-5 have on the USSR? 5 What was the overall impact of Stalin on the development of the USSR? Part 3: Post-Stalinist Russia, 1953-85 1 How successful a reformer was Khrushchev? 2 What was the extent of destalinisation? 3 Why was the period after Khrushchev a time of stagnation? 4 Why did the USSR eventually break up? 5 To what extent had Russia modernised btween 1856 and 1985? A2 Assessment Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one''s opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of force -- an approach very different from that stressed in the West. Safeguarded for centuries by the ruling elite of imperial China, even in modern times these writings have been known only to a handful of Western specialists. This volume contains seven separate essays, written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, that preserve the essential tenets of strategy distilled from the experience of the most brilliant warriors of ancient China.

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Book SynopsisA dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill''s record have gone woefully unexamined. As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at the same time that Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to crush its freedom movement and a profound contempt for native lives. A series of Churchill''s decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inevitably led to the deaths of some three million Indians. The streets of eastern Indian cities were lined with corpses, yet instead of sending emergency food shipments Churchill used the wheat and ships at his disposal to build stockpiles for feeding postwar Britain and Europe. Combining meticulous research with a vivid narrative, and riveting accounts of personality and policy clashes within and without the British War Cabinet, Churchill''s Secret War places this oft-overlooked tragedy into the larger context of World War II, India''s fight for freedom, and Churchill''s enduring legacy. Winston Churchill may have found victory in Europe, but, as this ground-breaking historical investigation reveals, his mismanagement- facilitated by dubious advice from scientist and eugenicist Lord Cherwell- devastated India and set the stage for the massive bloodletting that accompanied independence.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. Trade ReviewWall Street Journal "Abolitionists were contemptuous of such self-serving nonsense, but they too tended to see slavery as an economically inefficient, and morally reprehensible, hangover from the premodern past... In The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist takes passionate issue with such assumptions. He asserts that slavery was neither inherently inefficient nor a counterpoint to capitalism. Rather, he says, it was woven inextricably into the transnational fabric of early 19th-century capitalism... Baptist writes with verve and a good eye for the dramatic." New York Times Book Review "Baptist's work is a valuable addition to the growing literature on slavery and American development... Baptist has a knack for explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose... The Half Has Never Been Told's underlying argument is persuasive." Vikas Bajaj, New York Times "New books like Empire of Cotton and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist offer gripping and more nuanced stories of economic history." Los Angeles Times "The overwhelming power of the stories that Baptist recounts, and the plantation-level statistics he's compiled, give his book the power of truth and revelation." Daily Beast "Thoughtful, unsettling... Baptist turns the long-accepted argument that slavery was economically inefficient on its head, and argues that it was an integral part of America's economic rise." Nation "Wonderful... Baptist provides meticulous, extensive, and comprehensive evidence that capitalism and the wealth it created was absolutely dependent on the forced labor of Africans and African-Americans, downplaying culturalist arguments for Western prosperity." Providence Journal Best Books of 2014 "Baptist's exhaustively researched, elegantly written and provocatively argued book details the connection between the growth of the institution of human bondage and economic innovations from 1783--1861." Guardian Australia Best Books of 2014 "A compelling case for recognizing slavery as fundamental to the rise of the United States." Seattle Times "[Baptist] presents a detailed case, showing how the American economy benefited from profits gained by forced labor and financial instruments that enabled investors to profit from slavery." Huffington Post Black Voices blog "Quite a gripping read. Baptist weaves deftly between analysis of economic data and narrative prose to paint a picture of American slavery that is pretty different from what you may have learned in high school Social Studies class." Salon "Baptist's real achievement is to ground these financial abstractions in the lives of ordinary people. In vivid passages, he describes the sights, smells and suffering of slavery. He writes about individual families torn apart by global markets. Above all, Baptist sets out to show how America's rise to power is inextricable from the suffering of black slaves." Washington Independent Review of Books "Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told is an achievement of the first order... With Baptist's meticulous research and comprehensive, chronological approach, the other half of the story has now been told, and told very well." Mashable "Baptist has a fleet, persuasive take on the materialist underpinnings of the 'peculiar institution.'"Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Heart, 1937 1. Feet 1783-1810 2. Heads 1791-1815 3. Right Hand 1815-1819 4. Left Hand 1805-1861 5. Tongues 1819-1824 6. Breath 1824-1835 7. Seed 1829-1837 8. Blood 1836-1844 9. Backs 1839-1850 10. Arms 1850-1861 11. Afterword: The Corpse 1861-1937 Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOn the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall,infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe,seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime,nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.It was an accident.In The Collapse , Prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist''s eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin.We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain the hapless Politburo member Günter Schabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC''s Tom Brokaw and Stasi officer Harald Jäger, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin''s Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom,and the dictators are plotting to restore control.Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.Trade ReviewFareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week "This is easily the best book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reads like a thriller, it's deeply researched and smoothly written. It will remind you how unlikely it was that the Soviet empire would collapse until one day it did." Economist "[This] story has not previously been told...so vividly and comprehensively. [Sarotte] brings those dramatic days to life... The events she describes are at times so unlikely and unfold so quickly that her plot would probably have been rejected in Tinseltown had she offered it during the Cold War." Financial Times Best History Books of 2014 "An authoritative and fast-moving account of the events that led up to the collapse of East Germany." Washington Post "Sarotte is a superb historian. She's ferociously intelligent, but what really separates her from her colleagues is her acute sensitivity to human drama." Foreign Affairs "Sarotte's lively and engaging book scrupulously details the events of November 9, 1989, when the world watched in shock as the Berlin Wall came down." Guardian, UK "Sarotte has produced a skillful, scrupulously documented, nuanced reconstruction of how a series of mistakes by East German leaders and officials...turned what was meant to be a carefully managed process of controlled opening...into the world's most celebrated festival of popular liberation." Telegraph, UK "A fast-paced, fascinating account of the final weeks, days and hours of the wall." Winnipeg Free Press, CAN "Brief, intense, and gripping... Sarotte's effort is magnificent... This is history at its best." Washington Post's Post Everything Blog "The book that will haunt Vladimir Putin as long as he's in power." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The most definitive account to date of the events that led to the demise of the German Democratic Republic, the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War... It is a scholarly work of considerable accomplishment, painstakingly researched, fastidiously documented... This book is well-written, even fluid. Ultimately, it rewards the patient reader, who emerges with a deeper and richer understanding of one of the most astonishing and memorable events of the past quarter century." H-Diplo "Sarotte's wonderfully written book--backed up with reams of research and interviews--explains the factors that led to one of the most important moments in the twentieth century." Booklist, starred review "An inspiring and often thrilling account." Publishers Weekly "This gripping, important account of a long-misinterpreted event is one of the most surprising books about the Cold War." Kirkus "A rigorous sifting of evidence surrounding the final toppling of the sclerotic East German state. With extensive use of Stasi files, Sarotte finds that accident, rather than planning, caused the collapse of the Berlin Wall... [T]his account amply conveys the universal amazement and excitement of the time." Library Journal "[Sarotte] utilizes international reactions, publications, and interviews to highlight or offset her main narrative and in doing so creates a cohesive picture of a tumultuous nation whose oppressed yet hopeful citizenry sought the freedom they had been denied. Amply researched and emotive, this work shares the full narrative of events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall in a way that both academics and lay readers will appreciate." Economist Best Books of 2014 "A blow-by-blow account of the birth of modern Germany on November 9th 1989, when, at an otherwise dull press conference in East Berlin, a government spokesman said that a new law permitting East Germans more freedom to travel would go into effect immediately. It changed Europe for ever." BBC History Magazine 2014 Books of the Year "This is history writing at its very best, full of drama and pathos, yet immaculately researched and elegantly written." Zocalo Public Square 10 Best Books of 2014 "The Collapse challenges our narrative of the Soviet Union's collapse, 25 years after the Wall's fall. Sarotte deftly balances individual human agency and contingency with larger political forces to show that the Berlin Wall coming down was neither inevitable nor the result of global power shifts alone." Wall Street Journal "Sarotte runs a fine-tooth comb through the archives and gathers an impressive range of stories from the ordinary people at the heart of these extraordinary events. She is keen to dispel the kind of convenient 'hindsight bias' which claims that the peaceful fall of the Wall was inevitable or engineered by bigger forces than human beings who wanted a different life." Angela Stent, author of The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century "In her compelling and fast-paced narrative, Mary Elise Sarotte reminds us that the end of the Cold War was not foreordained, but that courageous acts by East German dissidents, offhand comments by GDR officials, and the actions of one perplexed border-guard changed the course of twentieth-century history. This is essential reading for those who want to understand the role of contingency and human agency in the unexpected opening of the Berlin Wall." Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union "Meticulously researched, judiciously argued, and exceptionally well written, The Collapse describes the fall of the Berlin Wall from an unprecedented perspective. Mary Elise Sarotte weaves together numerous German, American, and Soviet accounts, allowing the reader to crisscross the Berlin Wall on the eve and in the course of its collapse. It will come as a surprise to many that that this climactic event in Cold War history resulted not from agreements reached in Washington, Berlin, Moscow, or Bonn, but from the uncoordinated actions of people on both sides of the Berlin divide. The Collapse makes it possible for those who made history in 1989 to speak in their own voices." O.A. Westad, author of Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750 "History the way it should be written: world historical change, seen through the eyes of the people who lived through it, and a top historian who can tell us what it all meant. Highly recommended for everyone with an interest in global affairs." Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam "It's one of the most astonishing events in contemporary world history: the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall one autumn day in 1989. Mary Elise Sarotte tells the story with verve and insight, drawing on a wide array of previously untapped sources. The outcome, her gripping narrative suggests, was in no way inevitable, but resulted from a series of high-pressure decisions by individuals--many of them hitherto unknown--who might easily have chosen differently. A splendid book." Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Guns at Last Light "A lucid, compelling account that illuminates the most astonishing event of the late twentieth century. With verve and impeccable scholarship, Mary Elise Sarotte tells a tale no novelist could have invented--the decline and fall of the Berlin Wall." General Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser "In The Collapse, Mary Elise Sarotte provides a needed (and highly readable) reminder that the peaceful culmination to 1989's dramatic developments was in no way inevitable." Tom Brokaw "The Collapse is a riveting and important account of the political chaos in East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mary Elise Sarotte is a distinguished historian with a playwright's eye who gives us fresh insights and telling anecdotes about one of the most important nights of the late twentieth century." Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Future of Power "The fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the landmark events of the twentieth century, but this great change involved accidental and non-violent causes. In wonderfully readable prose, Mary Elise Sarotte tells a compelling story of how history works its surprises."

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Book SynopsisFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the 'gripping' tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century (Financial Times)In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the four hundred men who had embarked on the voyage, only four survived-three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for almost ten years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home, and they were forever changed by their experience. The men lived with a variety of nomadic Indians and learned several indigenous languages. They saw lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had ever before seen. In this enthralling tale of four castaways wandering in an unknown land, Andrés Reséndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.Trade Review"(Andres Resendez's) indefatigable scholarship, knowledge of the context and craftsmanlike storytelling provide a model account: concise, solid, moving." TLS "Andres Resendez recreates this epic crossing in painstaking detail... Resendez tells this gripping story with zeal... It is impossible not to be swept along by his enthusiasm." FT "Resendez's brisk historical narrative cries out for novelisation." Times"

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Book SynopsisThe heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled Hitler''s Pope -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican''s silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him Hitler''s Pope. But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world''s largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler -- while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files by an acclaimed author, Church of Spies tTrade ReviewWall Street Journal "A page-turning book... Fascinating." Washington Times "[A] remarkable book... Highly readable... [Riebling] has written what is one of the more important books on intelligence of the year. His painstaking research and vivid writing make it a five-cloak/five-dagger read." War on the Rocks "After years of painstaking research in the Vatican's archives, Riebling has a different and heart-pounding story to tell of the Pope's network of spies that fought to bring about Hitler's downfall... [An] amazing book that combines the rigor of history with the storytelling of a novel." National Review "A groundbreaking new history of the Vatican-German Resistance... Writing with the craft of a novelist and the conscience of a meticulous scholar, Riebling has produced a masterly account of these events." Crisis Magazine "In compelling detail, Riebling looks not only at the strategies that various anti-Nazi officers and other co-conspirators pursued to kill Hitler, but the kind of government structures that would need to be imposed on shattered Germany if the conspiratorial plots succeeded... Riebling's compelling new evidence should put to rest the propaganda charging that Pius XII was at best a weak reed and at worst a Nazi sympathizer." H-Net "Church of Spies sheds light on the secret actions and covert war waged by Pius, the Vatican, the German Catholic Church, and various German Catholic citizens against Hitler and the Nazis... By weaving together numerous storylines in a chronological fashion from 1939 to 1945, the history of this period reads more like an exciting popular fiction spy novel than an academic work... [A]n extremely readable and interesting work." Joseph Bottum, Washington Free Beacon "Riebling recounts in a fast, readable style the fumblings, betrayals, and bad luck that plagued attempts to remove Hitler. Through it all, he shows the Vatican looming in the background -- the only support on which the conspirators could count, the only consistent contact they had with the Allies, and one of the few moral centers to which they could look." George Weigel, First Things "[Church of Spies] adds a mass of new evidence to what we know, now, about what the Pope and the Church did to deal with the mortal threat to civilization posed by Hitler and German National Socialism." George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center "This gripping book, the product of extensive and fine-grained historical research, should change the course of the 'Pius Wars,' if both critics and defenders of Pius XII take its evidence seriously." Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich: A New History "In this exciting and original work, Mark Riebling has unearthed vital new sources, and he writes elegantly and persuasively on a fascinating subject that has remained hidden in history's shadows." Rabbi David Dalin, author of The Myth of Hitler's Pope "In Church of Spies, Mark Riebling provides a groundbreaking and riveting account of Pope Pius XII's secret war against Hitler. This richly documented book makes an important contribution to contemporary scholarship about Pius XII and to our understanding of the historical legacy of his pontificate." Gerald Posner, author of God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican "Mark Riebling takes readers into the seldom-explored mysterious world of Vatican espionage with a deeply researched and fresh account that reads like a spy thriller. The crackling narrative of Church of Spies delivers an important and compelling addition to the debate over the legacy of Pius XII, the most powerful and complex Pope of modern times." Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith "A fascinating contribution to the literature on the Holocaust, the history of the papacy, and the life of Pius XII." Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill "While the Pope hesitated to publicly provoke Hitler in foolhardy way, he had no hesitation in secretly opposing the Third Reich and its crimes. The record of the assistance Pius XII provided, through his representatives, to the German resistance, and the actions they took, under his guidance, is extraordinary. Without minimizing the complicity of individual Christians, or the role of Christian anti-Semitism, Mark Riebling shows that the Vatican took a very powerful stance against the Nazis. It is especially important for Jewish people--and I am Jewish myself--that this information is now being gathered for all to see." Catholic World Report "[A] blockbuster of a book which not only defends Pius XII...but utterly demolishes the Black Legend by showing in intricate and meticulously documented detail...that from the very start of the war the Pope cooperated secretly with anti-Nazi forces in Hitler's thousand year Reich who sought, first, to remove the Fuhrer from power; and when that failed, to kill him... Riebling's book is beautifully written, and reads like a novel... [R]iveting." The American Catholic "[T]he wealth of detail the author has unearthed by his meticulous research...is impressive and absolutely damning against those who mendaciously have attacked Pius XII as either the silent Pope or even a sub rosa ally of Hitler. This book is highly recommended." Breitbart News "[F]ascinating...offers a compelling narrative of the actions taken by Pope Pius to stop Hitler from carrying out his campaign of world domination and ethnic cleansing. Backed by a mass of carefully compiled documentation, Riebling shows that Pius cooperated in a variety of plots, initiated by patriotic, anti-Nazi Germans, to assassinate Hitler and replace the National Socialist regime with a government that would make peace with the west." Australian Financial Review "Moves as swiftly as a novel." Library Journal "Clandestine organizations are hard to reconstruct and Riebling has mined an impressive array of archival sources to tell this fascinating story." George Weigel, First Things blog "[A] deeply researched study of Pius XII's involvement in plots to depose Adolf Hitler... It's a great read, so give it on those grounds; but it's morally permissible if you give it to annoy the New York Times." Eric Metaxas, New York Times #1 bestselling author, nationally syndicated radio host "Church of Spies shows, with significant research to back it up, that Pope Pius the Twelfth was not, in fact, Hitler's Pope, as he has wrongly been called, but quite the contrary, an enemy of Hitler's who worked behind the scenes against him. Mark Riebling documents how people of faith linked arms against evil that was Nazism and did not turn a blind eye against it. This is a fascinating, riveting, and a deeply important corrective to the false narrative about the Catholic church during World War II." Military History "[A] revealing history of Pius' wartime dealings with the German resistance to Nazi rule... Readers will be surprised at the steady stream of anti-Hitler conspiracies, several of which reached the point where dates were set and bombs assembled." Newcastle Herald "Meticulously researched... A fascinating account of the many Catholics, including priests, who were part of the intelligence network that actively fought the Nazi regime." Aletia "Church of Spies is well worth reading for the fascinating story." Kirkus "Riebling, an expert on secret intelligence, compellingly explores the papacy's involvement in espionage during World War II... This book has much to surprise, especially the many German officers, separately and together, involved in attempts on Hitler's life... Pius, vilified by critics who believed he ignored Germany's atrocities, comes off as a politically savvy man who realized his interference would precipitate Hitler's mortal overreaction against German Catholics. Not only a dramatic disclosure of the Vatican's covert actions, but also an absorbing, polished story for all readers of World War II history."

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Book SynopsisFor eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political philosophy: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished political scientist Shlomo Avineri rejects the common view that Zionism was solely a reaction to anti-Semitism and persecution. Rather, he sees it as part of the universal quest for self-determination. In sharply-etched intellectual profiles of Zionism''s major thinkers from Moses Hess to Theodore Herzl and from Vladimir Jabotinsky to David Ben Gurion, Avineri traces the evolution of this quest from its intellectual origins in the early nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel. In an expansive new epilogue, he tracks the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s, explaining its pernicious effect on the nation that secular Zionism created. The result is a book that enables us to understand, as perhaps never before, one of the truly revolutionary ideas of our time.

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Book SynopsisReflections of Prague is the story of how a Czech Jewish family become embroiled in the most tragic and tumultuous episodes of the twentieth century. Through their eyes we see the history of their beloved Prague, a unique European city, and the wider, political forces that tear their lives apart.Trade Review"... stands as an important testimony to tragic times...." (The Prague Post, July 2006) "It's a memorable story which stays in the mind long after the last page has been turned." (Nottingham Evening Post, December 2006)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Journey with my Lost Father. 2. Lonely Times. 3. The Safety of Bratislava. 4. Rudolf. 5. Heda. 6. Rudolf: Into Adulthood. 7. Heda: Life’s Endings and Beginnings. 8. Between the Wars. 9. An Impotent Army. 10. Chances of Survival. 11. Transport to Lódz. 12. A Stumble out of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 13. Return to Prague. 14. From Idealism into Self-Destruction. 15. Politics Taking Over. 16. Stranded in the Forcefully Distorted Economy. 17. The Soviets Arrive. 18. Journeys of Misunderstanding. 19. Towards Manufactured Guilt. 20. Ways into Detention. 21. To Nowhere. 22. In the Name of the Party. 23. Making Trade. 24. Ruzyne› Interlude. 25. The Theatre of Absurdity. 26. A Trip to the Land of No Return. 27. The Last Journey. 28. Sinking Deeper. 29. Towards Beauty. 30. A Walk from School. 31. Youthful Dreams. 32. The Emergence of Truth. 33. Living Anew. Appendices: Families and Friends, Artists and Writers, Defendants, Politicians and Interrogators. Notes. Index.

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Book Synopsis"A must for anyone interested in the Roman Empire and its impact on world history. " -Tony Robinson star of Blackadder and Time Team. This entertaining and informative guide introduces readers to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors, epic wars, awesome architecture, heroes, and villains.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Romans – The Big Boys of the Ancient World 7 Chapter 1: The Romans: Shaping Their World and Ours 9 Chapter 2: It’s the Cash That Counts: Roman Social Classes 29 Chapter 3: Stairway to the Stars: The Greasy Path to Power 47 Chapter 4: Rural Bliss – Roman Dreamland 61 Chapter 5: When We Were Soldiers 71 Part II: Living the Good Life 87 Chapter 6: The Urban Jungle 89 Chapter 7: Making the Roman Machine Work 103 Chapter 8: Entertainments: Epic and Domestic 121 Chapter 9: Divine Intervention 143 Part III: The Rise of Rome 165 Chapter 10: Kings? No, Maybe Not – Republicans 167 Chapter 11: This Town Isn’t Big Enough for All of Us – Seizing Italy 185 Chapter 12: Carthage and the First Two Punic Wars 199 Chapter 13: While We’re at It – Let’s Conquer Everywhere Else, Too 215 Part IV: When Romans Ruled the World 225 Chapter 14: Reform and Civil War 227 Chapter 15: Daggers Drawn – The Fall of the Republic 255 Chapter 16: Augustus and the Caesars – Plots, Perverts, and Paranoia 271 Chapter 17: The Five Good Emperors 303 Part V: Throwing the Empire Away 317 Chapter 18: More Civil War, Auctioning the Empire, and Paranoid Lunatics 319 Chapter 19: The Age of the Thug – The Third Century’s Soldier Emperors 331 Chapter 20: East Is East and West Is West: Diocletian and Constantine 347 Chapter 21: The Barbarians Are Coming! The End of Rome 369 Part VI: The Part of Tens 389 Chapter 22: Ten Turning Points in Roman History 391 Chapter 23: Ten Interesting and Occasionally Good Romans 395 Chapter 24: Ten (Mostly) Bad Romans 401 Chapter 25: Ten of Rome’s Greatest Enemies 407 Chapter 26: Ten (or So) Great Roman Places to Visit 413 Index 419

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Book SynopsisUnravel the history behind of one of the most fascinating ancient civilisations with this engaging, entertaining and educational guide to the ancient Egyptians.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Introducing the Ancient Egyptians 7 Chapter 1: Getting Grounded: The Geography and History of Ancient Egypt 9 Chapter 2: Examining the Lives of the Everyday Egyptians 29 Part II: Stepping Back in Time 55 Chapter 3: Building a Civilisation with Military Might 57 Chapter 4: Building the Empire: The Glories of the New Kingdom 79 Chapter 5: Looking at the Power Behind the Throne: Royal Women 101 Chapter 6: Following the Decline and Fall of the Egyptian Civilisation 117 Part III: Living Life to the Full: Culture and Beliefs 139 Chapter 7: Enjoying Food and Entertainment 141 Chapter 8: Staying Healthy: Diseases and Medicine 157 Chapter 9: Worshipping like an Egyptian: Religion 171 Chapter 10: Exploring Funerary Beliefs and Mummification 189 Part IV: Interpreting Egyptian Art and Architecture 207 Chapter 11: Deciphering Egyptian Art and Hieroglyphs 209 Chapter 12: Touring the Temples 229 Chapter 13: Excavating the Tombs: Houses of Eternity 253 Chapter 14: Probing the Pyramids 271 Part V: The Part of Tens 285 Chapter 15: Top Ten Breakthroughs in Egyptology 287 Chapter 16: Ten Egyptians Worth Knowing 297 Chapter 17: Ten Ancient Egyptian Achievements 307 Chapter 18: Top Ten Places to Visit in Egypt 317 Chapter 19: Ten Key Egyptologists 327 Index 335

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Book SynopsisArchaeology stories are often in the news- from recent discoveries like the burial sites of St Paul and King Herod, to the 2 million year old human footprint in Egypt. It's up to archaeologists to find the pieces of the puzzle and fit them together into a picture of the past.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Archaeology: Seeing Past People Today 7 Chapter 1: What Archaeology Is 9 Chapter 2: What Archaeology Isn’t and Why That’s Important 23 Chapter 3: So You Want to Do Archaeology? What Kind? 33 Chapter 4: How Archaeologists Think and Work 53 Part II: Archaeological Fieldwork: The Adventure Begins! 65 Chapter 5: Supplies and Equipment You Need 67 Chapter 6: Archaeological Survey: Finding Where to Dig 75 Chapter 7: The Archaeological Dig 95 Chapter 8: Laws, Ethics, and Safety in Field Archaeology 121 Part III: After the Dig: You’ve Only Just Begun 133 Chapter 9: Processing Excavated Materials in the Laboratory 135 Chapter 10: Studying and Analyzing What You’ve Excavated 151 Chapter 11: Reconstructing the Past: Piecing Together the Puzzles 171 Part IV: Archaeology Reconstructs the Whole Human Past 193 Chapter 12: Early Humans: Original Cave Guys & Gals 195 Chapter 13: The Last 10,000 Years: Climate Change and Early Food Production 211 Chapter 14: Ancient States 235 Chapter 15: Historic Archaeology: Reinterpreting the More Recent Past 259 Part V: Archaeology Is for Everyone 279 Chapter 16: The Uses of Archaeological Findings 281 Chapter 17: How You Can Explore Archaeology 297 Chapter 18: Controversies and Sensational Findings 307 Part VI: The Part of Tens 327 Chapter 19: Ten-Plus Archaeological Places to Visit in the U.S 329 Chapter 20: More Than Ten Archaeological Sites to Visit Outside the United States 335 Chapter 21: Ten Fun Archaeological Experiences 343 Appendix 347 Index 355

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