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Southern Illinois University Press Mending Broken Soldiers
£18.99
Double 9 Books A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History
Book SynopsisA Dark Chapter from New Zealand History by James Hawthorne unfolds as a literary masterpiece that intricately weaves historic drama into the tapestry of New Zealand's past. In this compelling paintings, Hawthorne demonstrates his prowess as a terrific writer, creating a story that now not only delves into ancient occasions but additionally engages readers on an emotional and intellectual degree. The book, considered one among Hawthorne's crowning achievements, gives a brilliant exploration of a specific, perhaps tumultuous, bankruptcy in New Zealand's history. Through the lens of historic drama, the writer skillfully brings to life the characters, events, and landscapes that formed the state's trajectory. Hawthorne's writing is characterized by creativity and passion, infusing the narrative with a sense of vibrancy that transports readers to extraordinary eras and emotional landscapes. The work's brilliance lies no longer best in its historical accuracy but in its ability to attach human beings thru shared reports and information. With a fashionable but handy prose fashion, James Hawthorne invitations a numerous target audience to immerse themselves within the complexities and nuances of New Zealand's beyond. A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History stands as a literary gem, imparting each an insightful historical account and a charming exploration of the human revel in.
£8.99
Rutgers University Press Imagined Orphans Poor Families Child Welfare and
Book SynopsisWith his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists—either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents—they in fact frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families.In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children’s experiences within welfare institutions—a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers’ efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or “no-good” parents fed upon the poor’s increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Trade ReviewLydia Murdoch's engaging study complements scholarship on childcare and offers the first book-length scholarly treatment of institutional care provided by agencies such as Barnardo's. -- Susan L. Tananbaum * Department of History, Bowdoin College *Murdoch explores the ways in which melodramatic incitement of pity for allegedly orphaned children worked to demonize the poor in Victorian England. This insight flies in the face of much current scholarship. Written with refreshing clarity, this historical study will illuminate public policy discussions of child welfare and poverty even in the present day. -- Susan Thorne * Associate Professor of History, Duke University *Imagined Oftens makes many useful connections among the developing starnds of Victorian social history. ... Murdoch's work could mark an important milestone in the history of official willingness to remove poor children from parents depicted as incapable of raising them properly, a policy that has been detected as early as the seventeenth century. -- John D. Ramsbottom * Journal of Modern History *Table of Contents"A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular representations of poor children From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic identity for poor children The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of poverty "That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members of empire "Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship
£48.60
Double 9 Books The Book of This and That
Book SynopsisRobert Lynd's collection of memories, The Book of This and That, is a deliberate compilation of his numerous essay thoughts, skillfully condensed right into a single on hand volume, designed to be low cost for readers of every age. The memories within this anthology captivate with a mix of fascination and quiet attraction, a few unfolding in ways that surprise and others lightly drawing readers into their narratives. Regarded as a classic, this book stands as a repository of Lynd's profound ideas, seamlessly woven collectively for readers to explore. This version of The Book of This and That now not only preserves the timeless essence of Lynd's reflections but additionally introduces a present day contact with an attention grabbing new cowl and a professionally typeset manuscript. The cautious presentation complements the clarity of the gathering, making it inviting for a contemporary target market. Whether readers searching for intriguing testimonies or concept-provoking insights, Lynd's paintings on this edition promises a literary adventure that spans generations, offering something for anybody and reaffirming its repute as a classic for readers to cherish.
£10.79
Double 9 Books A Defence Of Virginia
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Syracuse University Press Broken Irelands
Book SynopsisExamines Irish novels of the post-crash era, addressing the proliferation of writing that downplays realistic and grammatical coherence in works of fiction. McGlynn argues that they are reflecting and responding to social and economic conditions during the global economic crisis and its aftermath of recession, austerity, and precarity.
£26.55
Double 9 Books The History of Korea Vol. I
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Double 9 Books History of the Constitutions of Iowa
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Double 9 Booksllp Henry IV Part-II
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University of Minnesota Press Wastelanding
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wastelanding is simply a brilliant book. It is at once a beautifully written, rigorously researched and hauntingly moving account of U.S. settler colonialism’s violent making of racialized bodies and degraded landscapes in the U.S. Southwest. Traci Brynne Voyles draws together a rich set of critical approaches and weaves them into what will be the new bar for environmental politics."—Jake Kosek, University of California, Berkeley"This groundbreaking book examines how race, gender, and nature coproduce one another through ‘wastelanding.’ Voyles’ masterful account explains how colonization, racialization, and resource extraction work together to produce sacrifice zones. She connects history, geography, Native American Studies, ethnic studies, and women and gender studies in a truly unique contribution to the literature of environmental studies and environmental justice."—Julie Sze, University of California, Davis"Wastelanding is meticulously researched, covers extremely complex events that continue to have dire consequences for Native peoples on the Colorado Plateau in a well-organized discourse, and draws on the work of dozens of other historians and professionals as well as a multitude of source documents."—Indian Country Today"There is a gap in geography in and around meaningfully engagements with Indigenous feminism. There is also a failure amongst radical scholars to place themselves within the landscapes they inhabit. This context of erasure makes Traci Brynne Voyles’ contribution all the more valuable and worthy of a thorough read."—Antipode"Thought-provoking and challenging."—Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education"Wastelanding is an often thought-provoking examination of settler colonialism’s impact on the Navajo people and their lands and should appeal to students of Native American history, geography, mining, gender studies, and the environment."—Western Historical Quarterly"Sophisticated and insightful."—Journal of American History"A timely and innovative work that applies a multitude of theoretical perspectives with remarkable elasticity to illuminate a critical instance of environmental injustice that is far from isolated."—The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContentsPreface: In Search of TreasureIntroduction: Sacrificial Land1. Empty Except for Indians: Early Impressions of Navajo Rangeland2. Prospecting for Magic Ore in America’s New Frontier3. Cowboys and Indians in Navajo Country4. Hot Spots: Justice, Power, and Gender in the Radioactive Present5. Monsters and Mountains: Competing Geographies of Uranium6. The Big Hurt: Boom and Bust on Contested GroundConclusion. Zombie Mines: The Future of Uranium and Native SovereigntyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
State University of New York Press Constitutional Ambiguity and the Interpretation
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The University of Alabama Press American Examples
Book SynopsisThe third in a series of annual anthologies produced by the American Examples workshop. In the latest volume from this innovative academic project, ten topically and methodologically diverse scholars vividly reimagine the meaning and applications of American religious history.Trade ReviewAmerican Examples seeks nothing less than to shake the founding assumptions of American religious history. What happens, these contributors ask, if we approach our archives not with the question of how they fit into a broader historical narrative but ask instead: what does this tell us about 'religion' or 'America'? What does the field look like if we foreground the religious studies focus of J. Z. Smith rather than the normative assumptions of narrative history? This volume offers a timely, provocative contribution to the field and will be sure to inspire debate!" - Anthony Petro, author of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion
£26.96
Casemate Publishers Butrint 8
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers The Dove and the Dragon
Book SynopsisThe Dove and the Dragon is the first comprehensive history of Western apocalypticism. Ed Simon introduces a new system for classifying the movements between hopeful "doves" and violent "dragons." This way of interpreting history gives a full scope of apocalypticism as a genre. The book promises to be the standard introduction for years to come.
£24.29
The University of Alabama Press Apalachicola Valley Archaeology
Book SynopsisSynthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia, from 1,300 years ago to recent times.
£30.56
Crooked Lane Books The Shakespeare Secret
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Ohio University Press Living with Nkrumahism Nation State and
Book SynopsisIn the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa.Trade Review“Sterling…A much-needed work on this important period in both Ghana’s history and the history of sub-Saharan Africa…Though some of the earlier works on Nkrumah and the demise of his rule are overly critical, and argue that Nkrumah’s ideology and the socialism of the CPP were at odds with what the people wanted, Ahlman’s work is critical yet measured.…[He] bridges the gap between the overly harsh studies of the late 1960s and 1970s and the more recent sentiments of Ghanaians who believe that Nkrumahism managed to bring some benefits to Ghana.” * H-Net *“Ahlman’s trenchant and insightful book will be of considerable interest to scholars of citizenship, decolonization, early post-independence nationalism, and pan-Africanism. Ahlman’s work is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate audiences.” * African Studies Review *“The time is ripe for histories like this one that re-examine the classic moment of early postcolonial nationalism. In clear, accessible style, Ahlman sets up this account as a story that needs to be told without the baggage of a later postcolonial pessimism overdetermining the narrative. Further, he meets this challenge.”“This well-crafted study of Ghanaian life under the rule of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) makes an important contribution to our understanding of a critical period in Ghana’s and Africa’s history.…Ahlman clearly succeeds in his goal of illuminating the ‘aspirations and tensions involved in living with Nkrumahism’ and reconstructing a critical period in Ghana’s history ‘without the weight of later decades.’” * Journal of Modern African Studies *“Living with Nkrumahism is an ambitious and successful book. It should be read by anyone interested in Nkrumah’s Ghana and African national developments in the 1950s and 1960s.” * Journal of Social History *
£25.19
Oxford University Press Inc Embracing Exile
Book SynopsisA new interpretation of historical and contemporary Jewish texts that views diaspora as a positive outcome for Jews and for the worldJewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they lived for centuries. They also settled in Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Italy,Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, England, the United States, among many other places. Diaspora became normal to Jews, and though they may have hoped for a return to their Promised Land at the End of Days, they made sense oftheir many homes, defending diaspora as the realm where Jewish life could grow, and they could fulfil their obligations to God. Embracing Exile analyzes biblical and rabbinic texts, philosophical treatises, studies of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and a multiplicity of modern expressions. It offers revised readings of the Bible's book of Esther, a survey of Talmudic treatments
£24.29
Oxford University Press Inc The Great Museum of the Sea
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£18.00
University of Hawai'i Press Time and Language
Book SynopsisPresenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of ‘New Sinology’ by restoring the role of language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern China emerged.Trade ReviewThis is a richly researched and intelligently argued collection of studies that highlight a key methodological and interpretive issue in China studies and provides a considerable empirical detail that makes their point. The volume delivers on the promise of the editors to bring language/philology back in—to argue for and demonstrate the significance of "New Sinology": the careful attention to historical language and knowledge in texts both contemporary and earlier to illuminate the power of cultural habitus as well as conscious practice over time as expressed in the written version of Austin’s speech acts. These studies show that the tools of traditional Sinology, with a focus on linguistic and philological expertise, can and do contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the genesis and experience of modern China." - Timothy Cheek, The University of British Columbia
£22.36
Double9 Books Foxs Book of Martyrs
Book SynopsisThe Actes and Monuments by Foxe, John , sometimes referred to as Foxe's Book of Martyrs is a masterpiece of Protestant martyrology and history. It contains a polemical narrative of the persecution Protestants endured at the hands of the Catholic Church. The book had a significant impact on common conceptions of Catholicism in England and Scotland.Persecutions, awful tribulations, the suffering of martyrs, and other similar things incident... in England and Scotland, and all other foreign nations, is what is described in the book. The title ends with in this kingdom of England and Scotland as partially as to all other distant nations apparteynyng, once more leaving the specific church in question.Tales of valiant bravery and triumphant faith. Tales about Christ and God's love. Stories of how God's incredible grace enabled men, women, and children to survive persecution and frequently horrifying deaths.
£22.94
University of Hawaii Press Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan
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£19.94
Little, Brown Book Group Oliver Twist Me
Book SynopsisA fascinating family and social history and a savage indictment of the role of child slavery in the growth of the Industrial Revolution, Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern TimeWe all think we know the tale. As a child, Charles Dickens was forced to work in a mouldering Thames-side blacking factory, an event that scarred him for life and inspired Oliver Twist. Except that''s only part of the story. In reality, Dickens appropriated the stories of foundlings and orphans - including Robert Blincoe, whose memoir supplied the source material for his great novel of childhood. In Oliver Twist & Me, novelist Nicholas Blincoe presents a dual biography of Dickens and his great-great-great-grandfather Robert, showing how the story of an orphan took off in different directions, helping Dickens project himself as an inimitable literary one-off, just as Robert''s memoir of a workhouse boy gave a voice to the masses.From London and Kent to the factories of Manchester, Blincoe retraces the steps of both men, along the way discovering the Camden workhouse that inspired Dickens and revisiting the great stage musical. His journeys with his family and his dog Fredo lead him to an affectionate reassessment of a beloved classic, while also revealing how Dickens shaped the story of his lonely childhood to suppress his debt to his family, hide his affairs and, as his career ignited, abandon the people who had helped him. By playing off the lives of a working-class hero and a classic author, Oliver Twist & Me reveals Dickens - and his world - as they have never been seen before.
£20.00
Oxbow Books Limited Cladh Hallan Roundhouses and the Dead in the
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£37.95
Cornell University Press Illinois
Book SynopsisAn account of the state's development, from the earliest native settlements. Focusing on the state's changing population over time, this book highlights the achievements of ordinary people, including the women, the African Americans, and the other minorities. Containing illustrations, it appeals to students of history and general readers alike.Trade ReviewBiles' first-rate primer on the state's history will be a useful resource for anyone curious about a state whose residents have played crucial roles in almost every major episode in the nation's history. * Chicago Tribune *Lively and informative.... Biles clearly and cogently traces the Prairie State's distinctive history, from its earliest geological and Indian eras to the present. * THe annals of iowa *A scholarly and highly accessible survey text that balances the rural and urban experience. * Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of maps Preface 1 The Indians and the French 2 British Colonial Rule and American Independence 3 From Territory to Statehood 4 Settling the Frontier 5 Slave State or Free? 6 Civil War 7 A Modernizing World 8 The Spirit of Reform 9 An Artistic Renaissance 10 World War I and the Red Scare 11 Prosperity and Depression 12 World War II 13 Postwar Boom and Suburban Growth 14 Turbulence and Change 15 An Uncertain Future Epilogue Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
£20.39
Orient BlackSwan History of the United States of America From Independence to the Civil War
Book SynopsisThis volume, From Independence to the Civil War, covers important themes and historiographical debates:
£13.99
Columbia Global Reports Campaigns of Curiosity
£12.34
Harvard University Press The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco 16191640
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£32.26
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Five Blessings of Ifá The
£17.09
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Miscellany XVII
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£36.00
Double 9 Booksllp The Eventful History Of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
Book SynopsisThe Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (1831) by Sir John Barrow is viewed as the classic example of the mutiny on the Bounty. It incorporates a description of the island of Tahiti, and a story of events from the embarkation of the Bounty in 1787 through to the trail of a portion of the mutineers in 1792 and the endurance of others on Pitcairn Island. The story is told with the help of the first reports for the case, which Borrow critically evaluates.It was first published in 1831 by John Murray as the 25th volume in their Family Library series. An American release followed under the title A Description of Pitcairn's island and its Inhabitants: The many later reissues incorporate a 1936 Oxford World's Works Classics edition.
£14.44
Dattsons Publishers Indian Knowledge Systems
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£28.49
Johns Hopkins University Press Science and Technology in World History
Book SynopsisFacts and figures have been thoroughly updated and the work includes a comprehensive Guide to Resources, incorporating the major published literature along with a vetted list of websites and Internet resources for students and lay readers.Trade ReviewThe book provides an excellent overview of world science and technology for readers at any level...highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I.1. Humankind Emerges2. The Reign of the Farmer3. Pharaohs and Engineers4. Greeks Bearing Gifts5. Alexandria and AfterPart II.6. The Enduring East7. The Middle Kingdom8. Indus, Ganges, and Beyond9. The New WorldPart III.10. Plows, Stirrups, Guns, and Plagues11. Copernicus Incites a Revolution12. The Crime and Punishment of Galileo Galilei13. "God said, 'Let Newton be!'"Part IV.14. Textiles, Timber, Coal, and Steam15. Legacies of Revolution: From Newton toEinstein16. Life Itself17. Toolmakers Take Command18. The New Aristotelians19. The Bomb, the Internet, and the Genome20. Under Today's PharaohsAfterwordGuide to ResourcesIllustration CreditsIndex
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Double 9 Booksllp The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia And The Sword Hunters Of The Hamran Arabs
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University of North Carolina Press Brown and Blue
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Maple Spring Publishing The Growth of the American Republic
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Bloomsbury Academic Fandom Nationalism
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Duke University Press The Meaning of Soul
Book SynopsisIn The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false endings. Through these soul techniques, artists such as Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie Riperton performed virtuosic survivorship and thus helped to galvanize black communities in an era of peril and promise. Their soul legacies were later reanimated by such stars as Prince, Solange Knowles, and Flying Lotus. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague masculinist political formation tethered to the Black Power movement, Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music, the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role playedTrade Review“Emily J. Lordi’s The Meaning of Soul will likely be the most important book I'll read this decade. Lordi reminds us that to hear soul, one must actively listen to the winding ways of black folk. Lordi is the greatest listener this nation has created, and this book will remind us that liberation starts with black sound.” -- Kiese Laymon“An exquisite work of sound scholarship, The Meaning of Soul offers a new narrative of soul music that compels us to rethink what we have missed about the genre and the political moment it inhabited. It at last articulates a usable, inclusive definition of soul, filling a critical gap in our understanding of black music and sociopolitical experiences in the United States and across the diaspora." -- Zandria F. Robinson“Emily J. Lordi incisively and insightfully takes up the daunting task of resurrecting, dissecting, and disentangling soul’s wide-ranging legacy, spillage, and overlap in black popular culture, black academia, and radical black politics. Her generation-leaping contrasts of the soul and ‘post-soul’ era’s most spiritualized and radicalized avatars from James Brown to Beyoncé serve up poignant and often piquant musicological reveals about classic, epochal recordings of Civil Rights-era and contemporary vintage. Lordi illuminates the evolutionary artistry that ensures the poetics, production, and ethos of soul kulcha sustain staying power as a haunted (and hainted) arbiter of black resilience, resistance, and embattled maroon futurism. With wit, detail, and ruminative verve Lordi narrates and interrogates how the journey of the soul meme’s movements within musical blackness navigates a crossroads full of split desire for both incendiary grassroots action and an infinity of intimate release.” -- Greg Tate"Lordi’s distinct takes on the genre are refreshing, built on close listening to artists like Riperton and Donny Hathaway and explorations of albums that reside outside the soul canon." * Kirkus Reviews *"The Meaning of Soul is a thoughtful, lively journey through rich musical archives that expands the definition of what it means to be a soul artist." -- Rachel Jagareski * Foreword Reviews *"Lordi vividly illustrates that soul artists offer models of black resistance, joy, and community through their songs. This is a must-read for musicologists, critics, and fans of soul." (Starred Review) * Publishers Weekly *"Lordi’s book is essential reading, for she brilliantly guides us to reconsider the meaning of soul and to redefine it." -- Henry Carrigan * No Depression *"A strong choice for libraries supporting African American studies or popular American music programs." -- Jeffrey Hastings * Library Journal *"Detailing not only the evolution of the genre but of the criticism surrounding it, The Meaning Of Soul is a heartfelt appreciation as well as a welcome addition to the scholarly soul canon." -- Michael A Gonzales * The Wire *"Few cultural theorists listen to music this well or joyfully; few critics place their judgments and pleasures within as persuasive a theoretical framework." -- Keith Harris * CityPages *"With welcoming prose that belies its density, The Meaning of Soul focuses on ostensibly unconventional creative choices: soul singers’ covers of songs written by white artists; ad-libs, improvisations, and mistakes; the uses of falsetto and the 'false endings' that trickle throughout the oeuvres of many Black artists. She is attentive to the significant contributions of the female architects of the genre. . . . Lordi gives a deft, concise accounting of soul music’s political and social milieu." -- Danielle A. Jackson * Bookforum *“Meaning of Soul is a needed corrective, challenging how scholarship and much of popular culture remembers the soul music era. Lordi refuses descriptions of the era that only allow its brightest stars and biggest names full consideration.... Her work serves as an exemplar for inclusive genre analysis that makes room for musical possibility.” -- Fredara Mareva Hadley * Journal of Musicological Research *"Lordi’s love for soul music, vibrant writing, and analytical acumen coalesce in a book that is difficult to put down. Readers are unlikely to hear soul music the same way ever again. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." -- S. Graham * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Keeping On 1 1. From Soul to Post-soul: A Literary and Musical History 19 2. We Shall Overcome, Shelter, and Veil: Soul Covers 46 3. Rescripted Relations: Soul Ad-libs 74 4. Emergent Interiors: Soul Falsettos 101 5. Never Catch Me: False Endings from Soul to Post-soul 126 Conclusion. "I'm Tired of Marvin Asking Me What's Going On": Soul Legacies and the Work of Afropresentism 150 Notes 165 Index 205
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PM PR Everything We Thought Was Beautiful
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Duke University Press Intimate Eating
Book SynopsisAnita Mannur examines how cooking, eating, and distributing food can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging for people of color, queer people, and other marginalized subjects.Trade Review“Anita Mannur’s extraordinary analyses of cooking and eating in photography, film, television, novels, blogs, and performance art creates new forms of the public in unexpected places: inside bedrooms and kitchens, alongside food trucks, and under the white tent of The Great British Bake Off. She generates in her readers a hunger for queer kinships with friends and strangers forged outside of the patriarchal domain of family life. Intimate Eating is powerful reading for Asian American studies, queer and feminist of color studies, and food studies: I want to eat every meal with this book.” -- Bakirathi Mani, author of * Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America *“In this brilliant, urgent, and necessary book Anita Mannur underscores one of the central tenets of neoliberalism: the increased privatization of everyday life and attacks on the public. She vividly shows how nonnormative subjects navigate this trend, turning private spaces and practices via the culinary into ones that foster sociability, intimacy, community, and belonging. Through the provocative and timely concept of ‘intimate eating publics,’ Mannur has captured the pleasures and possibilities of publics and how they act as sites of forging radical ways of belonging.” -- Mark Padoongpatt, author of * Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America *"[Mannur's] reflections move back and forth between a scholarly tone which at times does not recuse itself from jargon and a personal voice that is able to express raw—at times joyful, at times painful–emotions. Both styles are effective in weaving engaging arguments and developing a critical analysis of the material at hand. Mannur’s memories of family dinners and the progressive dissolution of her marriage are honest, direct, and passionate, without invalidating the rigor of her analysis. . . . In Intimate Eating, Mannur pushes us to embark on our own explorations to reassess pieces of popular culture that we may be familiar with but whose power we may not be fully aware of." -- D. Sutton * Food Anthropology *"Mannur brings an acute tongue and sensory analysis to a wide range of contemporary samplings, which in itself provides a dizzying array of the author’s scope." -- Christine R. Yano * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Tiffin Box and Gendered Mobility 23 2. Cooking for One and the Gustatory Gaze 47 3. Eat, Dwell, Orient: Food Networks and Asian/American Cooking Communities 73 4. Tasting Conflict: Eating, Radical Hospitality, and Enemy Cuisine 99 5. Baking and the Intimate Eating Public 129 Epilogue 143 Notes 147 Works Cited 161 Index 171
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Advantage Media Group Leadership Beyond Borders
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History
Book SynopsisAndré Keil is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
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Duke University Press The Emancipation Circuit
Book SynopsisIn The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved, freedpeople built new settlements and created a network of circuits through which they imagined, enacted, and defended freedom. This interdisciplinary history shows that these circuits linked rural and urban organizations, labor struggles, and political culture with news, strategies, education, and mutual aid. Mapping the emancipation circuits, Davis shows the geography of ideas of freedom---circulating on shipping routes, via army maneuvers, and with itinerant activists---that became the basis for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States. In this work, she reconfigures understandings of the evolution of southern Black political agendas while outlining the origins of the enduring Black freedom struggle from the Jim Crow era to the present.Trade Review“In this spectacular book Thulani Davis presents a framework for not only rewriting the Civil War and Reconstruction, but for understanding the entire history of the Black freedom movement extending into the twentieth century. As groundbreaking as W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, The Emancipation Circuit is a masterpiece.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression *"The Emancipation Circuit offers a powerful reimagining of the networks that helped to secure Black freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction: It is a history about enslaved people’s efforts to free themselves and about their local struggles to give substance to their legal emancipation, as well as a mapping of the geography that enabled their achievements and the circuits that spread their political goals like pollen in the wind. . . . The Emancipation Circuit reminds today’s activists that any organizing for Black freedom must be multifaceted and must pursue local aims while traveling along preexisting networks to become a broader collective effort." -- Elias Rodriques * The Nation *"Thulani Davis’s The Emancipation Circuit is an important contribution to Black social and political thought that helps center Black women and Black resistance of United States history and social movements." -- Krystal Batelaan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The Emancipation Circuit provides a convincing analysis of the spatial history of emancipation ... a valuable reference for future research." -- Keith D. McCall * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsList of Maps xi List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South 1 1. Flight: Movement Matters 19 2. The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map 44 3. Virginia: Assembly 80 4. North Carolina: Custody 109 5. South Carolina: Majority 133 6. Georgia: Mobilization 165 7. Florida: Faction 196 8. Alabama: Redemption 217 9. Louisiana: Societies 243 10. Mississippi: Bulldoze 269 11. Arkansas: Minority 294 Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought 321 Notes 345 Table Source Notes 393 Bibliography 397 Index 427
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Microcosm Publishing The Pittsburgh Tarot
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Duke University Press Lifelines
Book SynopsisHarris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai's busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .Trade Review"Lifelines is a subtly crafted account of the tangled relations between mobility and life in the contemporary city. In that sense, it contributes to a vibrant discussion on mobility, infrastructure and urban life across South Asia and other regions of the world today. . . . The manuscript’s strengths lie in how it radiates out from its empirical focus: trauma as it moves in and through the hospital as a site of medicalised care." -- Waqas Butt * South Asia *Table of ContentsNote on Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Traffic of Trauma 1 1. Carrying: The Lifelines of Transfer 27 2. Shifting: The Lifelines of Triage 53 3. Visiting: The Lifelines of Home 79 4. Tracing: The Lifelines of Identification 107Seeing: The Lifelines of Surgery 135 5. Breathing: The Lifelines of Ventilation 147 6. Dissecting: The Lifelines of Forensics 174 7. Recovering: The Lifelines of Discharge 200 Epilogue: The Traffic of Medicine 229 Notes 237 References 253 Index 277
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Creed and Culture Books, Inc. The Mighty Continent
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Duke University Press Rising Up Living On
Book SynopsisIn Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism, gendering, heteropatriarchy, and the continual dispossession of bodies, land, knowledge, and life, while revealing practices that contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through stories, narrations, personal letters, conversations, lived accounts, and weaving together the thought of many—including ancestors, artists, students, activists, feminists, collectives, and Indigenous and Africana peoples—in the Americas, the Global South, and beyond, Walsh takes readers on a journey of decolonial praxis. Here, Walsh outlines individual and collective paths that cry out and crack, ask and walk, deschool, undo the nation-state, and break down boundaries of gender, race, and nature. Rising Up, Living On is a book that sows re-existences, nurtures relationalitTable of ContentsGratitudes ix Beginnings 1 1. Cries and Cracks 13 2. Asking and Walking 75 3. Traversing Binaries and Boundaries 123 4. Undoing Nation-State 180 5. Sowing Re-existences 230 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 297 Index 321
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Duke University Press Third World Studies
Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might inform the field of Third World studies, further articulating its liberatory promise and power.
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